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Nov 9, 2019 · Hundreds of Indian Sikhs have made a historic pilgrimage to Pakistan, crossing the border to one of their holiest sites under a landmark deal between the two rival countries. At least 700...
Dec 5, 2018 · Sikhs lost the most from the partition of British India in 1947, as their spiritual and material homeland got divided between India, a majority Hindu country, and Pakistan, majority Muslim.
- Pippa Virdee
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- Festivities Interrupted by Tensions
To this day, when he visits the home his parents fled – now occupied by a Muslim family – he is greeted with respect, offered hospitality, and seen as one of their own, Singh says. “People want to go to the other side of the border,” Singh adds. “We are brothers with a common history.” Pakistan is home to approximately 20,000 Sikhs, though the real...
Although Pakistan titles itself as an Islamic Republic, the country still strives to uphold warm relations with its religious minorities, Farooq adds. “There is sometimes enmity which gives birth to intolerance, and that you can’t even stop in Europe or the US,” he tells Al Jazeera. The divided state of Punjab, splintered in two by India and Pakist...
Periodically, however, festivities have been interrupted by a breakdown of relations between Pakistan and India. Earlier this year, India accused Pakistan of failing to provide pilgrimage trains for Sikh yatris, while India stopped more than 300 Sikhs from travelling to pilgrimage sites across Pakistan as tensions simmered between the two archrival...
- Sabrina Toppa
Apr 13, 2021 · While there is no doubt that the Partition and the subsequent hostility between India and Pakistan played a major role in the hardening of the Hindu-Muslim identities, the British colonial state ...
Pakistani government sign welcoming Sikh pilgrims to Nankana Sahib. Sabrina Toppa The spiritual teachings of Sikhism were developed by a successive line of Gurus in the 16th century.
Nov 9, 2019 · The Kartarpur corridor leads from the border straight to the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur, 4km (2.5 miles) away. But tensions between India and Pakistan have made the shrine hard to access...
Nov 18, 2019 · Last week, the Indian-Pakistan Kartarpur corridor finally opened for Sikh pilgrimage. The opening of the corridor, a 2.5-mile visa-free border crossing, symbolizes a rare show of bilateral cooperation between the two feuding nations.
