By India on Friday summoned Pakistan’s chargé d’affaires to lodge a protest against Islamabad’s call at hand over management of room European Gurdwara in Kartarpur to a body with none Sikh representatives.
External affairs ministry representative Anurag Srivastava aforesaid Aftab Hassan Khan, chargé d’affaires at the Islamic Republic of Pakistan High Commission, was “summoned and our robust protest was conveyed”.
“It was additionally sent to him that this unilateral call by Islamic Republic of Pakistan is very wrong and runs against the spirit of the Kartarpur European passageway as additionally the non secular sentiments of the Sikh community at giant,” he said.
Srivastava aforesaid the Indian government has received representations from the Sikh community “expressing grave concern at this call by Islamic Republic of Pakistan, targeting the rights of the minority Sikh community”.
He added, “Pakistan is named upon to reverse its capricious call to deprive the Sikh minority community its right to manage affairs of the holy gurdwara [in] Kartarpur.”
Darbar European Gurdwara is made at the location at Kartarpur in Islamic Republic of Pakistan wherever Guru Nanak, the founding father of religious belief, spent the last years of his life.
According to a notification issued on November three, Pakistan’s non secular affairs ministry handed over management of the gurdwara to a “project management unit” below the migrant Trust Property Board (ETPB), a section that oversees the shrines of the country’s minorities.
The gurdwara was earlier below the management of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (PSGPC). There are not any Sikhs among the officers and workers appointed by the ETPB for Darbar European Gurdwara.
Pakistan’s ministry, on Th, had represented India’s position on the difficulty as “wilful propaganda” and aforesaid the PSGPC remains answerable for rituals in gurdwaras, as well as the one at Kartarpur. The project management unit below the ETPB has “simply been created to facilitate the PSGPC during this regard,” it aforesaid in an exceedingly statement.
India and Islamic Republic of Pakistan opened a four.7-kilometre-long cross-border passageway, connecting Dera cake religious leader in Gurdaspur district with room European gurdwara in Kartarpur, a year agone to permit Indian pilgrims to go to the shrine while not visas.
India is nonetheless to determine on reopening its a part of the passageway, that was surround March as a part of Covid-19-related travel restrictions, following Pakistan’s recent call to open its aspect.
