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481st Joti Jot Gurpurb of Baba Guru Nanak Dev Jee was observed at Gurdwara Darbar Sahib #Kartarpur. 1st time in the history Nagar Kirtan was taken out from Gurdwara Darbar Sahib to Zero Point (Pak-India border)
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Kartarpur corridor to reopen after 'improvement' in coronavirus situation
October 2, 2020
Gurdwara Darbar Sahib decorated with fairy lights. — Photo courtesy Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB)
The government on Friday announced that the Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib Corridor has been reopened in the wake of an "overall improvement in the COVID-19 situation".
According to a notification issued by the ministry of religious affairs on, the reopening will take effect immediately.
Indian visitors are allowed to come daily from dawn to dusk as per the bilateral agreement made in 2019 between India and Pakistan. They have been requested to comply with the precautionary measures on COVID-19.
Local visitors will also be able to come from dawn to dusk every day, subject to the observance of COVID-19 safety protocols.
The first Guru of Sikhism, Baba Guru Nanak Sahib, had spent the last 18 years of his life in Kartarpur, a town located in Punjab province's Narowal district.
Visits to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur had been suspended for Sikh pilgrims in March by Pakistan as the country battled the coronavirus pandemic.
It was reopened briefly in June to commemorate Maharaja Ranjit Singh's death anniversary, with India rejecting Pakistan's offer and refusing to open the corridor on its side.
For millions of Sikhs around the world, it is one of their holiest places. When Pakistan was carved out of colonial India at independence from Britain in 1947, Kartarpur ended up on the western side of the border — though most of the region's Sikhs remained on the other side.
For them, it is tantalisingly close — just four kilometres inside Pakistan, so near that Indian Sikhs have been known to stand on the other side and simply gaze across the divide at the site.
Decades of enmity between India and Pakistan left extreme restrictions on their ability to visit the site, until November 10, 2019, when Prime Minister Imran Khan formally inaugurated the corridor.
October 2, 2020
Gurdwara Darbar Sahib decorated with fairy lights. — Photo courtesy Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB)
The government on Friday announced that the Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib Corridor has been reopened in the wake of an "overall improvement in the COVID-19 situation".
According to a notification issued by the ministry of religious affairs on, the reopening will take effect immediately.
Indian visitors are allowed to come daily from dawn to dusk as per the bilateral agreement made in 2019 between India and Pakistan. They have been requested to comply with the precautionary measures on COVID-19.
Local visitors will also be able to come from dawn to dusk every day, subject to the observance of COVID-19 safety protocols.
The first Guru of Sikhism, Baba Guru Nanak Sahib, had spent the last 18 years of his life in Kartarpur, a town located in Punjab province's Narowal district.
Visits to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur had been suspended for Sikh pilgrims in March by Pakistan as the country battled the coronavirus pandemic.
It was reopened briefly in June to commemorate Maharaja Ranjit Singh's death anniversary, with India rejecting Pakistan's offer and refusing to open the corridor on its side.
For millions of Sikhs around the world, it is one of their holiest places. When Pakistan was carved out of colonial India at independence from Britain in 1947, Kartarpur ended up on the western side of the border — though most of the region's Sikhs remained on the other side.
For them, it is tantalisingly close — just four kilometres inside Pakistan, so near that Indian Sikhs have been known to stand on the other side and simply gaze across the divide at the site.
Decades of enmity between India and Pakistan left extreme restrictions on their ability to visit the site, until November 10, 2019, when Prime Minister Imran Khan formally inaugurated the corridor.
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View Of A Village Well And A Mandir At Bannu, Circa 1908.
Bannu, central part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan, just south of the Kurram River. The nearby Akra mounds have revealed finds dating to about 300 BCE. In ancient and medieval times, the Kurram-Bannu route into the Indian subcontinent was used by invaders and colonizers from the northwest.
Founded in 1848 by Lieut. (later Sir) Herbert Edwardes as a military base, the town was named Dalipnagar (1848) and then Edwardesabad (1869). In 1903 its name was changed to Bannu.
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