Despite travel restrictions, SGPC prepares to send jatha to Nankana Sahib in November

Invites passports, documents from devotees wishing to sojourn the gurdwara

Nankana Sahib. File photo

Even arsenic uncertainty continues to loom implicit question via the Attari-Wagah onshore way pursuing the Union Government’s restrictions imposed aft the Pahalgam panic attack, the Shiromani Committee has started preparations to nonstop a Sikh jatha for Guru Nanak Dev’s commencement day to Pakistan.

The Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) connected Thursday said it would beryllium sending a jatha of Sikh pilgrims to Gurdwara Sri Nankana Sahib successful Pakistan successful November this year. It has initiated the visa process for the aforesaid and invited Sikh devotees who privation to sojourn to the gurdwara to taxable their passports by August 4.

“The SGPC volition nonstop a jatha for the juncture of Guru Nanak Dev’s Parkash Gurpurb (birth anniversary) to sojourn assorted humanities gurdwaras successful Pakistan,” said SGPC caput Partap Singh present today. He added that devotees wishing to sojourn Gurdwara Janam Asthan Sri Nankana Sahib and different historical Sikh spiritual places successful Pakistan indispensable taxable their passports on with a proposal from the country SGPC subordinate to the SGPC’s Yatra Department by August 4. Along with their passports, they indispensable taxable a transcript of ID proof. He urged everyone to guarantee timely submission of documents for timely completion of the visa process.

Following the Pahalgam panic attack, the Central Government had imposed restrictions connected travelling to the neighbouring state done the Attari-Wagah way and suspended each kinds of visas, including nether the SAARC Visa Exemption Scheme.

In response, Pakistan had besides canceled each visas issued to Indian nationals, but exempted Sikhs traveling for spiritual visits.

It should beryllium noted that nary Sikh jatha was sent earlier either for the decease day of Maharaja Ranjit Singh oregon the martyrdom time of Guru Arjan Dev.