Attracting pilgrims

Source: SBP

Over 6,700 Sikhs arrived last week from India to take part in the Baisakhi Mela (festival) to be held on April 14 at Gurdwara Janam Asthan, Nankana Sahib. Some of the holiest sites for Sikhs are in Pakistan. In India, the Golden Temple has about 100,000 pilgrims daily. But that is not the only avenue of religious tourism.

At $3.3m, religious tourism reached its highest level ever in FY24, the year Syedna Mufaddal Saifu­ddin, the spiritual leader of the Bohra community...