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Pakistan scraps Umrah vaccine contract amid probe into procurement irregularities

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Pakistan's government terminated a contract to supply meningitis and influenza vaccines to Umrah pilgrims and arrested three officials, a senior health official said this week. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered a high-level inquiry into the July award of the contract to a private company.

Umrah is a pilgrimage to Makkah that Muslims can perform at any time of the year, and Pakistan sends large numbers of pilgrims to Saudi Arabia.

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