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Pakistani pilgrim Bushra Ali Shah, 35, bids her husband farewell before departing to Haj, for the first time without a male guardian, from her home in Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah, on July 16. — AFP
MAKKAH: Bushra Shah, a 35-year-old Pakistani, says she is realising a childhood dream by making the great pilgrimage to Makkah, and under new rules she’s doing it without a male “guardian”.
The Haj Ministry has officially allowed women of all ages to make the pilgrimage without a male relative, known as a “mehrem”, on the condition that they go in a group.
The decision is part of social reforms rolled out by de facto leader Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is trying to shake off the kingdom’s austere image and open up its oil-reliant economy.

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