Protocol on Visits to Religious Shrines 1974

Protocol on Visits to Religious Shrines 1974

Subject – IR

Context – India is “positive” and “willing to engage” in talks with Pakistan on upgrading the 1974 joint protocol on religious pilgrimages to allow air travel and increase the number of shrines that pilgrims from both countries could visit

Concept –

• The Protocol on Visits to Religious Shrines 1974 is a bilateral agreement between India and Pakistan facilitating Indian and Pakistani nationals to visit certain religious shrines in both countries.
• As of November 2018, fifteen locations in Pakistan and five in India are covered under this protocol.

List of locations covered by the protocol in India

• Ajmer Sharif Dargah, dedicated to sufi saint Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer, Rajasthan
• Nizamuddin Dargah, dedicated to sufi saint NizamuddinAuliya, in Delhi
• Amir Khusro, dedicated to Sufi musician Amir Khusro in Delhi
• Sirhind Sharif, Mujaddid Alf Sani in Sirhind, Punjab, India
• Kalyar Sharif, dedicated to sufi saint Alauddin Ali Ahmed Sabir, near Haridwar