A photo of Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib in Pakistan
New Delhi: India and Pakistan have renewed the agreement on Sri Kartarpur Sahib Corridor for the next five years. Foreign Minister S Jaishankar has given this information. He has said that the Modi government will continue to facilitate our Sikh community to access their holy sites.
What is Kartarpur Sahib?
Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara is known as Gurdwara Darbar Sahib. This is an important religious place for the Sikhs, because Guru Nanak Dev spent the last years of his life here. Nanak ji spent his life here for 16 years. Later, Guru Nanak Dev left his body at this very place. After which Gurudwara Darbar Sahib was built here.
This place comes in Narowal district of Punjab, Pakistan. Kartarpur is situated here. This place is 120 kilometers away from Lahore and just three kilometers from the India-Pakistan border.
A controversy also came to light in November 2023
In November 2023, a case of playing with the sentiments of the Sikh community came to light in Pakistan. The Gurudwara located at Kartarpur Sahib here was desecrated. A liquor and non-veg party was organized just 20 feet away from the Darshani Deorhi of the Gurdwara of Kartarpur Sahib. Many videos of this party were also revealed.
In the video, people were seen dancing vigorously under the influence of alcohol. There was a table for non-veg food in the pandal. There was huge anger in the Sikh community after the video of the party surfaced. This party was given by Mohammad Abu Bakar Aftab Qureshi, CEO of Pakistan’s Project Management Unit.
Pakistan’s Narowal DC Mohammad Sharukh attended the party along with more than 80 people from different communities, including police officers. Also present at the party was yellow turban-wearing Sikh Ramesh Singh Arora, former MPA of Narowal and ambassador of the Kartarpur Corridor. Not only this, Head Granthi of Kartarpur Sahib Giani Gobind Singh also joined this party.
