Call­ing on the Pak­istan gov­ern­ment to main­tain the lands of Guru Nanak in its nat­ural glory, the Amer­i­can Sikh Coun­cil has waived the red flag for the on­go­ing con­struc­tion of Kar­tarpur Sahib arena in Pak­istan and sought im­me­di­ate in­ter­ven­tion at the high­est lev­els.

The Amer­i­can Sikh Coun­cil has ex­pressed dis­may at the lack of re­spon­sive­ness of the Pak­istan gov­ern­ment to its mis­sives re­gard­ing the de­struc­tion of her­itage in the con­struc­tion sites of Kar­tarpur Sahib.

Ac­cord­ing to their me­dia re­lease, the Amer­i­can Sikh Coun­cil and its rep­re­sen­ta­tives have been pur­su­ing the Pak­istan gov­ern­ment since De­cem­ber 2018 to no avail.

The Amer­i­can Sikh Coun­cil has con­demned the Shi­ro­mani Gur­d­wara Par­band­hak Com­mit­tee (SGPC) for not putting out a sin­gle state­ment in ref­er­ence to the preser­va­tion of the Kar­tarpur Sahib (Pak­istan). The state­ment said that “the SGPC  has been cul­pa­ble in the de­struc­tion and mod­ern­iz­ing of many gur­d­waras in East Pun­jab them­selves!”

The ASC has hoped that the gov­ern­ment of Pak­istan would use this op­por­tu­nity to truly make its mark in the an­nals of re­li­gious his­tory by us­ing a very sen­si­ble ap­proach of pre­serv­ing the five-cen­tury-old re­li­gious site.

As Vice Pres­i­dent of ASC Jas­bir Kaur stated, “Con­struct­ing on this do­main de­stroys the deep sanc­tity, the spirit of the sa­cred site of in­de­pen­dent world faith and any chances of ar­chae­o­log­i­cal re­vival of the lost her­itage as­so­ci­ated with Guru Baba Nanak.”

The ASC has re­marked that Pak­istan Prime Min­is­ter Im­ran Khan still has an op­por­tu­nity to cor­rect this path of de­struc­tion and be re­mem­bered by every Sikh for sav­ing and pre­serv­ing the sa­cred legacy of the found­ing prophet of the Sikh faith.