Af­ter dilly-dal­ly­ing over the last few days, fi­nally the In­dian gov­ern­ment al­lows a Sikh Jatha to travel to Nankana Sahib -the birth place of Guru Nanak dur­ing the forth­com­ing Guru Nanak Gur­purab cel­e­bra­tions

Am­rit­sar –Suc­cumb­ing to pres­sure of Sikh pil­grims, the gov­ern­ment of In­dia has re­versed its de­ci­sion to dis­al­low Sikhs to visit Sikh shrines in Pak­istan. Though per­mis­sion was de­nied on two ear­lier oc­ca­sions, the Cen­tral gov­ern­ment has ap­proved pil­grim­age to Pak­istan on the oc­ca­sion of the birth an­niver­sary of Guru Nanak at Nankana Sahib in Pak­istan in No­vem­ber, to be held on 4 No­vem­ber. 

The pil­grims will leave for Pak­istan through three spe­cial trains on No­vem­ber 2 from the At­tari rail­way sta­tion.

The SGPC has sent pass­ports of 947 Sikh devo­tees to the Pak­istan Con­sulate in New Delhi for visa.

Bhai Mar­dana Yadgari Kir­tan Dar­bar So­ci­ety pres­i­dent Harpal Singh Bhullar con­firmed that the clear­ance for around 400 mem­bers.  425 pil­grims would be part of the jatha be­ing sent by the Khalra Mis­sion Com­mit­tee.

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As per the sched­ule worked out with the SGPC and the Pak­istan Sikh Gur­d­wara Par­band­hak Com­mit­tee, the Sikh devo­tees from In­dia will be sent to Gur­d­wara Sri Panja Sahib (La­hore) on No­vem­ber 5. Be­tween No­vem­ber 7 and 10, they will visit around six re­li­gious des­ti­na­tions of West Pun­jab (Pak­istan), in­clud­ing Gur­d­wara Sacha Sauda, Gur­d­wara Dehra Sahib, Gur­d­wara Kar­tarpur Sahib, Gur­d­wara Rodi Sahib, Bhai Lalo Di Khuhi (Aimnabad). The Sikh devo­tees will re­turn on No­vem­ber 11.