NSTworld: For up to 30 million Sikhs around the world, the white-domed shrine is one of their holiest sites.
Cheering Sikhs walked joyfully along the road from Dera Baba Nanak in India towards the new immigration hall that would allow them to pass through a secure land corridor into Pakistan, in a rare example of cooperation between the nuclear-armed countries divided by decades of enmity.
At 78, he is older than India and Pakistan, who have fought three wars already and nearly ignited a fourth earlier this year.However for Indian Sikhs, it has remained tantalisingly close – so close they could stand at the border and gaze at its four cupolas – but out-of-reach for decades. Pilgrims on both sides of the border echoed the hope that the corridor might herald a thawing in the relationship between India and Pakistan.
Khan greeted pilgrims at the shrine, and in televised images could be seen speaking with Manmohan Singh. The opening comes just days ahead of the Guru Nanak’s 550th birthday on November 12 – an anniversary of huge significance for the global Sikh community. The Sikh faith began in the 15th century in Punjab, a region including Kartarpur which is split today between India and Pakistan, when Guru Nanak began teaching a faith that preached equality.
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