WATCH LIVE: PM Imran performs ground-breaking of Kartarpur corridor

NAROWAL: In a historical event, Prime Minister Imran Khan is laying the foundation stone of Kartarpur Corridor which will link Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan with India’s Gurdaspur district.

According to details, the ground-breaking ceremony is being attended by Chief of the Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, government officials, Indian ministers and a group of Indian journalists. Other foreign diplomats are also in attendance.

The formal opening of the work of the Kartarpur Corridor in India had begun on Nov 26 after a formal ceremony.

After Pakistan’s initiative to open the Kartarpur Corridor on the 550th birth anniversary of Sikhism founder Baba Guru Nanak next year, India last week had agreed and decided to build the Kartarpur road corridor up to the border with Pakistan.

Pakistan and India both had made an official announcement on November 15 in this regard.

The construction work will immediately begin following the ground-breaking ceremony of the corridor, sources said.

Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara at the bank of Ravi river in Pakistan is about four km from the Dera Baba Nanak shrine.

The Sikh community was demanding for a long time to build a corridor linking India’s border district of Gurdaspur to historic gurudwara in Narowal, Pakistan. The corridor will give Indian pilgrims easy access to the shrine in Kartarpur.

 

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