Hyderabad, April 28 -- A total of 67,000 Pakistani pilgrims are at risk of losing their opportunity to perform this year's Haj pilgrimage after the government allegedly transferred millions of dollars in payments to the wrong Saudi account.

According to the Haj Organizers Association of Pakistan (HOAP), approximately 50 million Saudi Riyals were accidentally transferred to an Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Fund account instead of the official account of Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Haj and Umrah, The Express Tribune reported.

As per a report by Middle East Eye (MEE), Malik Muhammad Aamir Dogar, Chair of Pakistan's Standing Committee on Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony, called the misdirected Haj payments ...