New Delhi: Pakistan’s Foreign Office on Friday rejected the remarks made by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, questioning the Partition and the placement of the revered Kartarpur Darbar Sahib gurdwara in Pakistan.
It termed Amit Shah’s assertion as unwarranted and gratuitous, information company PTI reported.
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In a press release, the Foreign Office talked about that Pakistan reiterated its critical concern over the BJP management’s growing tendency of dragging Pakistan into its home affairs.
“Pakistan categorically rejects the unwarranted and gratuitous remarks made by Indian Home Minister Amit Shah, during a recent event, questioning the Partition and location of Kartarpur Sahib in Pakistan,” the assertion learn, as quoted by PTI.
It is deeply regrettable that distortion of historic information has turn into the hallmark of the BJP authorities together with its ideological fountainhead RSS, the Foreign Office wrote.
Pakistan’s response comes after Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday expressed satisfaction over the opening of the Kartarpur hall in 2019 whereas claiming there was an “error” within the place being not noted of India throughout Partition.
“When the partition took place, there was an error. It (Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara) is just 6 km away (from the border with Pakistan). I don’t know how it was left out. There might be some shortcomings. Perhaps no one has noticed it (at that time),” he stated, as quoted by PTI.
“There was some regret during Gurpurab. But the Kartarpur corridor has given an opportunity to the people to visit the shrine and pay obeisance. People are thankful to the authority for this and appreciated it,” the Union Home Minister added.
Founder of Sikhism Sri Guru Nanak Dev had spent final the 18 years of his life at Kartarpur which is within the Narowal district of Pakistan.
In its assertion, the Foreign Office talked about it was Pakistan that had delivered to fruition the concept of Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur Corridor and accomplished the challenge in document time as a present to the Sikh group in India and worldwide.
The Kartarpur Corridor hyperlinks Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan, the place Sikhism founder Guru Nanak Dev lived and died at the beginning of the sixteenth century, to Dera Baba Nanak shrine in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district. The 4 km-long hall offers visa-free entry to Indian pilgrims to go to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib.
In November 2019, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan had formally inaugurated the Kartarpur Corridor as a part of the commemoration of the 550th start anniversary of Guru Nanak at a vibrant ceremony, paving the way in which for Indian Sikh pilgrims to go to one in all their faith’s holiest websites in Pakistan without having a visa.
(With Agency Inputs)
