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The government announced Friday that the Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib room had been reopened after a “general improvement in COVID-19. “
According to a notification issued through the Ministry of Religious Affairs, the reopening will take place immediately.
Indian visitors can come from dawn to dusk, in accordance with the bilateral agreement reached in 2019 between India and Pakistan, and were asked to comply with the precautionary measures relating to COVID-19.
Local visitors will also come from dawn to dusk every day, subject to compliance with COVID-19 protection protocols.
The first Sikh guru, Baba Guru Nanak Sahib, had spent the last 18 years of his life in Kartarpur, a city in Narowal district, Punjab province.
Visits to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur had been suspended for Sikh pilgrims in March through Pakistan as the country battled the coronavirus pandemic.
In short, he reopened in June to mark the anniversary of Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s death, with India rejecting Pakistan’s offer and refusing to open the room on his side.
For millions of Sikhs around the world, this is one of its holiest places. When Pakistan separated from colonial India, Britain’s independence in 1947, Kartarpur was discovered on the west side of the border, although the maximum number of Sikhs in the region remained on the other side. .
For them, it’s incredibly close: 4 kilometers from Pakistan, so close that indian Sikhs are known to stop on the other side and only look through the ditch at the site.
Decades of enmity between India and Pakistan left excessive restrictions on their on-site skills, until November 10, 2019, when Prime Minister Imran Khan officially opened the corridor.