DATE: 24/11/2018
Saturday
Current Affairs
Prepared by: Maharana Sibasankar
Sources: THE HINDU and the Indian Express
- CORRIDOR OF HOPE
- The Union Cabinet has approved the building and development of the Kartarpur corridor from Dera Baba Nanak in Gurdaspur district to the international border in Pakistan.
- The demand for Kartarpur Corridor had gathered momentum in 1995.
- The main aim of the visa-free corridor is to facilitate pilgrims from India to visit Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur on the banks of the Ravi River in Pakistan.
- Shri Guru Nanak Dev had spent eighteen years of his life at Kartarpur.
- The 4-km-long Kartarpur corridor would initiate meaningful confidence-building measure (CBM) between the two nations.
- The initiative can also help other communities to fulfil their demand. Kashmiri Pandits, who have long demanded for access to visit the Sharda Peeth in the Neelum Valley in PoK, Sufis in Pakistan who wish to visit the dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer, Rajasthan and Sikhs in India and Pakistan wanting to visit important shrines on both sides of the border will also get benefit out of the corridor.
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