1.   Afghan officials, aided by planes sent from Britain, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, scrambled to take would-be pilgrims to the annual pilgrimage in Mecca on Monday.

2.   Afghan officials, aided by planes sent from Britain, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, scrambled Monday to take would-be pilgrims to the annual pilgrimage in Mecca.

3.   Another boat from Matsu is due to take Buddhist pilgrims to a temple on the mainland.

4.   At present MAS charter flights are mainly for taking pilgrims to Saudi Arabia for the annual Moslem pilgrimage and some flights to China, Maldives, Macedonia and Toronto.

5.   In Pahalgam, thousands of buses and cars waited to take the pilgrims to Jammu, where the nearest railroad station is located.

6.   Later, a Chechen pilgrim was taken to the control tower to translate.

7.   The only exception was for flights to Saudi Arabia to take Muslim pilgrims to the holy sites for the annual pilgrimage called Hajj.

8.   The pilgrims were then taken to two makeshift immigration counters at the waiting lounge where they had their passports checked and stamped.

9.   Thousands of buses, cars and taxis in Pahalgam waited today to take the pilgrims to Jammu, site of the nearest train station.

10.   He said that in a worst case scenario the pilgrims could be taken by land to Peshawar for flights from Pakistan.