MAKKAH: 16,73,230 (including 115,000 Pakistani) pilgrims, clad in ahram, converged here on Wednesday (4th June, 2025) to perform tawaf (walking seven times around the Kaaba, as the mercury hits 40 degrees Celsius.
It is pertinent to mention here that this year 8,77,841 male and 7,59,389 female pilgrims performed Hajj.
Use of advanced technologies:
Bewildered by the fact that in 2024 extreme heat had claimed 1301 lives of the intended Hajis, last year the local government had attempted to make sure that the tragedy did not occur again. Forty KSA agencies and quarter million concerned personnel had been deployed to provide respite from the heat.
Meanwhile, KSA has using Drones and AI in order to enforce regulations and to apprehend violators of the laws (those performing Hajj sans permit).
Last year, KSA, that has been using modern tools, nabbed a number of pilgrims sans papier, who had been incarcerated and fined (upto SR 100,000). Following completion of imprisonment the violators would be sent back to their respected countries and face a re-entry ban for a decade.
Newspakistan.tv
