Harsimrat Badal tears up talking about Kartarpur in Pakistan

Tribune Web Desk 
Chandigarh, November 28

Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Wednesday got emotional while giving her speech during the foundation stone laying ceremony of Kartarpur corridor in Pakistan.

Badal said it was an emotional moment for her to speak at the historic Kartarpur Sahib gurdwara in Pakistan.  

She said, “If the Berlin Wall can fall, hatred between India and Pakistan can also end.”

She said: “It can be a new beginning in the name of Baba Nanak who said na koi Hindu na koi Muslim  lekin ek Onkar.”

She and Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri had crossed over to Pakistan through Attari-Wagah border to attend the ceremony.

Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan laid the foundation stone for the Kartarpur corridor.

Pakistan had also invited Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh and his cabinet colleague Navjot Singh Sidhu.

While Singh declined to attend the event, citing continued terrorist attacks in his state and killings of Indian soldiers by Pakistan's armed forces, Sidhu left for Pakistan on Tuesday.

Kartarpur is located in Shakargarh in Narowal district of Pakistan's Punjab. Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism, had spent more than 18 years of his life there.

The Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara is located on the banks of the Ravi river, about three-four kilometres from the border in Pakistan.