Pak decision to transfer Kartarpur gurdwara management to non-Sikh body

India strongly condemned Pakistan’s decision to transfer the management and maintenance of Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara to a non-Sikh body. The government said Pakistan’s move was against the spirit of Kartarpur corridor, as also the religious sentiments of the Sikh community.

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Key-Points

The Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, also known as Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib, is located in Pakistan’s Narowal district across river Ravi, about five kilometres from the Dera Baba Nanak shrine in India’s Punjab.

Guru Nanak Dev, the first Sikh Guru had arrived in Kartarpur between 1520 and 1522, as per historians, and spent the last 18 years of his life there. It was in Kararpur that he laid the foundations of a Sikh religion. At his final resting place stands the gurdwara.

The Kartarpur Corridor was finally thrown open in 2019 with the two sides agreeing on visa-free travel for Indian pilgrims to the shrine. The corridor was shut in March this year in view of the coronavirus pandemic.