Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, along with his cabinet ministers visited the revered Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan through visa-free Kartarpur corridor on Th𝔍ursday.
Channi along with a group of 30 people visited Pakistan on the second day of the reopening of thꦇe route, which was suspended for nearly 20 months, following ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚthe Covid-19 pandemic.
Evacuee Trust Property Board spokesperson in Pakistan, Amir Hashmi said that another delegation of BJPꦓ leaders also visited the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib.
"Indian Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, along with about 30 persons, including his Cabinet ministers, today visited Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, Kartarpur, by using Kartarpur Corridor," Hashmi 💙said.
Kartarpur Corridor Project Management Unit chief e🅠xecutive officer (CEO) Muhammad Latif, Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee office bearers and Commissioner 𒊎Gujranwala greeted the Indian guests who arrived here a day before the annual commemoration of the birth of Sikhism founder Guru Nanak Dev.
The ꦺfirst batch of 28 Indian Sikhs, including women, visited the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan on Wed🐻nesday by using visa-free corridor on the first day of its reopening.
Latif said that ov𝓡er 100 Indian pilgrims were expected to visit the historic gurdwara on Thursday.
The corridor links Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan, where Sikhism founder Guru Nanak Dev lived and died at the start of the 16th century, to Dera Baba Nanak shrine in Punjab's Gurdaspur district. The 4 km-long corridor provides visa free access🍸 to Indian pilgrims to visit Gurdwara Darbar ♛Sahib.
Pilgrimage to the Ka♒rtarpur Sahib gurdwara was suspended in March 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Indian government reopened the Kartarpur Sahib Corridor from its𝕴 side on Wednesday.
In November 2019, Prime Minister Imran Khan had formally inaugurated the Kartarpur Corridor as part of the commemoration of the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak at a colourful ceremony, paving🐷 the way for Indian Sikh pilgrims to visit one of their religion's holiest sites in Pakistan without needing a visa. (With PTI inpu🍰ts)
