Pakistan has issued a total of 3,000 visas to Indian Sikhs for the event. During their stay, pilgrims will be provided with accommodation, food, transportation, and medical facilities.
According to The Express Tribune newspaper, Dev Singh Sidhu from Amritsar, Punjab, travelled to Pakistan to observe the 185th death anniversary of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and conduct religious ceremonies.
The Sikh pilgrims travelling to Pakistan will visit Gurdwara Panja Sahib, Gurdwara Nankana Sahib, and Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib.
The pilgrims would go to Dera Sahib, Panja Sahib, Nankana Sahib and Kartarpur Sahib during their visit.
The visas were issued to facilitate the visit of the pilgrims to Pakistan to offer prayers at various gurdwaras from November 17-26.
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Wednesday denied permission to 600 Sikh pilgrims intending to visit Pakistan, citing security, COVID-19 concerns, PTI quoted officials as saying.
At least 29 passengers killed after a bus carrying Sikh pilgrims rammed into a train in the Sheikhupura district in Pakistan's Punjab province at 1:30 pm on Friday.
As many as 555 Sikh devotees from the national capital along with around 3,000 pilgrims will visit Pakistan via Wagah border in April to celebrate Baisakhi at the historic Gurudwara Panja Sahib, Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee (DSGMC) President Manjinder Singh Sirsa said on Sunday.
Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Saturday condemned Islamabad's insistence to charge a service fee of USD 20 from pilgrims to the Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara and compared it with 'jaziya'.
The recommendations call for Indian pilgrims to be given free entry and that facilitation centres and security check-posts to be set up on both sides of the border.
The Kartarpur corridor will be formally be inaugurated by Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday while Punjab Governor Mohammad Sarwar would host a reception in honour of the Indian Sikhs in Lahore on Tuesday.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said in its statement that Indian officials were compelled to return to Islamabad without performing their diplomatic and consular duties vis-a-vis Indian pilgrims.
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Lahore, Jun 9: Around 200 Indian Sikh pilgrims crossed into Pakistan on foot via the Wagah land border today after a mix-up prevented them from travelling across the frontier by train, officials said.The Indian Sikhs,
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