The Lahore High Court annulled yesterday the allocation of 15,000 Haj pilgrims’ quota to old private tour operators and ordered the Ministry of Religious Affairs to allocate the same afresh based on merit.
Justice Khalid Mahmood Khan passed the order on a set of petitions filed by newly-registered tour operators. They had challenged the Haj Policy 2014 and allocation of quota among old tour operators.
The petitioners’ counsel said that neither the government had constituted a committee for Haj Policy 2014 as was directed by the Supreme Court nor uploaded details of the policy on the website of the ministry of religious affairs.
