The Unfamiliar Office declared on Tuesday that Pakistan has reestablished a concurrence with India for the assistance of travelers to visit Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur, Narowal for an extra time of five years.
“The Agreement was originally signed on October 24, 2019, for a term of five years, and is scheduled to expire on October 24, 2024. Its reestablishment highlights Pakistan’s getting through obligation to encouraging interfaith concordance and serene conjunction,” the assertion added.
Pilgrims from India can still visit Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur, where Baba Guru Nanak, the revered founder of Sikhism, spent his final days, visa-free thanks to the agreement.
The corridor had made it easier for thousands of worshippers to get to this holy place since it was built.
The Sikh community’s long-held desire to gain access to one of their most revered religious sites is realized by the Kartarpur Corridor.
“It mirrors Pakistan’s acknowledgment of the significance of shielding the freedoms of strict minorities. The drive has procured inescapable appreciation from the global local area, including the Unified Countries Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, who depicted it as a “Passage of Trust”, it was additionally added.
Indian Sikhs can visit the temple just 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) inside Pakistan, where Guru Nanak died in 1539, through the Kartarpur corridor without needing a visa.
The corridor first opened in 2019 to commemorate Nanak’s 550th birthday, but the coronavirus pandemic forced it to close the following year.
The Punjab, the birthplace of Sikhism that was divided between Pakistan and India after they gained independence from Britain in 1947, is connected by this corridor.
Sikhs are a small minority in Muslim-greater part Pakistan, albeit large numbers of their strict locales stay there.
