Visas to the said pilgrims were issued by the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi on July 26. These visas were issued under the framework of Pakistan-India Protocol on Visits to Religious Shrines of 1974.
It is pertinent to mention that the government of Pakistan is taking a number of measures to make Kartarpur corridor fully operational later this year at the 550th anniversary of Baba Guru Nanak.
The said corridor will provide visa-free access to Indian Sikh pilgrims to the Gurdwara in Kartarpur Sahib – a small town in Narowal, four kilometers from the Pakistan-India border. The said Gurdwara is of immense importance to Sikhs around the world as Sikhism founder Baba Guru Nanak spent the last 18 years of his life there.