Protocol on Visits to Religious Shrines 1974
Recently, the Indian Government announced that India is positive and willing to engage in talks with Pakistan on upgrading the 1974 Joint Protocol on Religious Pilgrimages.
- The development comes at a time when ties between the two countries are at an all-time low, with trade and most forms of travel suspended since a terror attack at Pulwama(Jammu & Kashmir) in 2019.
About the Joint Protocol on Religious Pilgrimages 1974
Under this protocol both the countries have agreed on the following principles for facilitating visits to such shrines:
- Such visits from one country to the other shall be allowed without discrimination as to ....

