Hajj operation being digitalized to facilitate pilgrims.

ISLAMABAD -- The Hajj operation 2022 was being digitalized to facilitate the pilgrims through security and crowd management systems, said an official of the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony on Tuesday.

Talking to reporter, he said, according to the Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umrah, modern technologies would help improve the performance of Hajj rituals for pilgrims and maintain their health with quality of services.

The official briefed that this year one million people would perform Hajj in which 850,000 would be from abroad and 150,000 would be local ones.

To a query, he said the Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umrah had not allocated the quota to any country yet. The quotas would be allocated to each country with the ratio of one to a thousand after taking into account the recommendations of the Saudi health authorities, he maintained.

The official further informed that the quotas would be determined due the fact that the holy...