562 pilgrims visit Kartarpur gurudwara in Pak on first day
   Date :10-Nov-2019
 
NEW DELHI,
 
ON THE inaugural day, 562 pilgrims crossed over to Pakistan to offer prayers at the Gurudwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur after the much-awaited corridor was opened, officials said on Saturday. The four-km-long corridor, which connects the revered gurdwara in Pakistan to Dera Baba Nanak shrine in Gurdaspur district of Punjab, was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
 
A total of 562 pilgrims were part of the first ‘jatha’ who visited Gurdwara Darbar Sahib on the first day of the pilgrimage, a Home Ministry official said. As per the agreement between India and Pakistan, all the pilgrims have returned to India after visiting the gurdwara located in Pakistan’s Narowal district. Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, his wife Gursharan Kaur, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, Union ministers Hardeep Puri and Som Prakash were part of the delegation. The gurdwara is the final resting place of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism.
 
Sidhu thanks Modi, Imran for opening Kartarpur corridor
 
KARTARPUR :
 
THE opening of the Kartarpur corridor is an ointment on the wounds the people who witnessed bloodbath during the Partition, former Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu said on Saturday as he thanked the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan for the historic move. During his address at the inauguration ceremony of the Kartarpur Corridor, Sidhu said no one can deny “my friend” Imran Khan’s contribution in making the opening of the corridor possible. “Imran Khan has made history,” he said.