| Amritsar |
Published: January 1, 2020 11:28:49 am
The Kartarpur corridor, which connects Darbar Sahib Dera Baba Nanak in India's Punjab with Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur in Pakistan (in pic), was thrown open on November 9.
There was not a single brick in the name of the Kartarpur Corridor on Indian territory in the first month of 2019. Devotees crossing over to visit the Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib in Pakistan without visa, and the infrastructure put together by both countries towards the end of the year to make this happen is nothing short of a miracle.
Punjab was the only state to be affected outside of Jammu & Kashmir after the Indian Army's ‘surgical strikes' in 2016. Those living with 10 km of the border it shares with Pakistan were asked to evacuate.
Due to many reasons involving international diplomacy and internal politics in both countries, India and Pakistan had hastily held ground-breaking ceremonies for the Kartarpur Corridor in the last week of November 2018 without finalising crucial details about the international project.
Both sides had even made sketches of the Corridor in their respective territories, only to find that the ends of both sketches were not meeting at the same point on the border.
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