Tears, prayers, and heartfelt farewells marked an emotional morning at the Haj House in Bemina as the first batch of 178 Hajj pilgrims from J&K began their spiritual journey to the holy city of Makkah on Sunday
(Notably, as buses started moving towards the airport, the air was filled with chants of “Labbaik Allahumma Labbaik,” a call to the divine, echoing through the chilly Srinagar morning — Photo: Mubashir Khan, for Greater Kashmir)
