Tribune News Service
Amritsar, November 2
Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu writes to Ministry of External Affairs Minister, S Jaishankar, seeking permission to attend the opening ceremony of Kartarpur corridor in Pakistan.
On Saturday, in a letter to MEA, Sidhu requested to travel to Pakistan. The ceremony is scheduled on November 9—three days before the 550th birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism and the first Sikh Guru.
The cricketer-turned-politician also wrote a letter to Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh in this regard.
"As a humble Sikh, it shall be a great honour to pay obeisance to our great Guru Baba Nanak on this historic occasion and connect to our roots," wrote Sidhu, who is a legislator from Amritsar East.
"Therefore, I may be permitted to visit Pakistan for this auspicious occasion," the former minister said in the letter.
In August last year, Sidhu had attended the oath-taking ceremony of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan.
The corridor will connect Darbar Sahib in Pakistan's Kartarpur with Dera Baba Nanak shrine in Gurdaspur district in Punjab and facilitate visa-free movement of Indian pilgrims, who will have to just obtain a permit to visit Kartarpur Sahib, which is located in Pakistan's Narowal district across the Ravi river.
Kartarpur Sahib is located in Pakistan's Narowal district across the Ravi river, about four kilometres from the Dera Baba Nanak shrine.
Pakistan is building the corridor from the Indian border to the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur, while the other part from Dera Baba Nanak in Gurdaspur up to the border is being built by India.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Kartarpur corridor on November 9 at Dera Baba Nanak in Gurdaspur. — With PTI
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