All 79,000 Hajj applicants who applied by December 10 have been deemed successful by the Ministry of Religious Affairs. On the final day of applications, this information was announced.
“The ministry has chosen to continue accepting applications on a ‘first come, first served’ basis for the few thousand remaining slots in response to the demand from potential pilgrims,” a ministry official said in a statement on Tuesday.
According to the Hajj Policy 2025, up to 179,210 pilgrims from Pakistan would make the Hajj in 2025. The government and private Hajj programs have been allocated a 50:50 share of the Hajj quota.
Every Muslim who has the means must make the Hajj, one of the five pillars of Islam, at least once.
