500 Indian Sikhs arrive in Pak for Guru Nanak's birth anniversary celebrations
Some 500 Indian Sikhs arrived in Pakistan on Tuesday to take part in celebrations in connection with the 550th birth anniversary of Sikh faith founder Guru Nanak Dev.
Since the arrival of the Indian Sikhs was kept in a "low profile" neither the Evacuee Trust Property Board, which looks after holy places of minorities in the country, nor the Pakistan Gurdwara Parbhandhik Committee were taken on board by the Imran Khan government regarding their arrival.
The Pakistani media was also not invited to the venue to cover the arrival of the Sikh pilgrims from India.
The Pakistan Foreign Office later in the day issued a statement confirming the arrival of 500 Indian Sikhs but did not tell whether they crossed over here via under construction Kartarpur corridor or Wagah border.
Sources, however, told PTI that the Indian Sikhs arrived here via Wagah border.
The ETPB and PSGPC officials expressed their surprise for keeping them out of the "unscheduled" arrival programme of 500 Sikhs. "I wonder ...