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In Mecca, women set off on hajj as 'guardian' rule cast aside / V000_9F873Y
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Bushra Shah, a 35-year-old Pakistani, says she is realising a childhood dream by making the great pilgrimage to Mecca, and under new rules she's doing it without a male "guardian". The hajj 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. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES