"This time they came by foot and that made the whole immigration process lengthy,” he said. Immigration and vaccine and other Covid related tests made the process slow, causing a great deal of inconvenience for the pilgrims,” an official told PTI.He added that unlike the past practice, the yatrees would come here by foot instead of train.
"The yatrees had been queued since 6am Wednesday.
TRAIN TO PAKISTAN IN HINDI FREE
The 4 km-long corridor provides visa free access to Indian pilgrims to visit Gurdwara Darbar Sahib.Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi termed the reopening of the Kartarpur Corridor as a "good development".“I welcome Sikh pilgrims on behalf of the Government of Pakistan and the people of Pakistan…The Sikh pilgrims will come to visit their holy places through this corridor from today," Qureshi said while talking to the media outside the parliament in Islamabad on Wednesday.Separately, over 2,500 Indian Sikhs entered Pakistan via Wagah border crossing by foot. The corridor links Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan, where Guru Nanak Dev lived and died at the start of the 16th century, to Dera Baba Nanak shrine in Punjab's Gurdaspur district. The ETPB looks after the holy places of minorities in Pakistan.Hashmi said that Kartarpur Corridor chief executive officer (CEO) Muhammad Latif, Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (PSGPC) Pardhan (president) Sardar Ameer Singh and Dr Mampaal Singh greeted the Indian pilgrims at the Sikh shrine.The pilgrims spent several hours at the gurdwara and offered religious rituals before crossing back to their homeland, he added. Similarly, over 2,500 Indian Sikhs arrived in Pakistan via Wagah border crossing to take part in the annual commemoration of the birth of Sikhism founder Guru Nanak Dev."Īs many as 28 India Sikhs including women visited the Kartarpur Sahib on the first day (Wednesday) after the Indian government reopened the corridor,” Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) spokesperson Amir Hashmi told PTI. The first batch of 28 Indian Sikhs, including women, arrived at the revered Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib in Pakistan on Wednesday by using visa-free corridor, some 20 months after the pilgrimage was suspended in March 2020 following the Covid-19 outbreak.
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