Islamabad: The recent pilgrimage of Hajj 2025 attended pilgrims with the host Saudi authorities fighting to avoid more than 1,000 deaths last year in suffocating heat.
Around 1.4 million pilgrims arrived in Saudi Arabia ahead of the Hajj, one of the five pillars of Islam that all Muslims must perform at least once with the media.
The Saudi authorities had taken heat protection measures, mobilizing more than 40 government agencies and 250,000 officials, as an additional shadow to avoid a repetition last year, when 1,301 people died when temperatures reached 51.8 ° C (125.2 ° F).
However, the sources within the Ministry of Religious Affairs of Pakistan have said that up to 18 Pakistani pilgrims died in this year’s Hajj, including 10 men and eight women.
Most of those who died, added the sources, were older people who died due to heart attacks and various diseases and were buried in Jannatul Baqi in Saudi Arabia.
The figure is lower than last year’s deaths of the Pakistani pilgrims where 35 Pakistanis had died performing the Hajj in 2024.
It is pertinent to know that, as part of this year’s caution measures, extended in 50,000 square meters (12 acres), thousands of additional doctors were waiting and more than 400 cooling units were deployed to facilitate pilgrims.
