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India Denies Permission To Sikh Delegation To Visit Pakistan

Darpan News Desk IANS, 28 Jun, 2017 10:38 AM
    India Denies Permission To Sikh Delegation To Visit Pakistan
     
    The Centre has denied permission to a 251-member Sikh delegation to visit pakistan on the occasion of death anniversary of 19th century Sikh Maharaja Ranjit Singh, citing security reasons, the SGPC said today.
     
     
    The delegation, sponsored by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), was scheduled to visit Pakistan from June 21 to 29.
     
     
    "The Centre has declined permission to the delegation to visit Pakistan due to security reasons," SGPC secretary Harcharan Singh told today.
     
     
     
     
    The Centre had informed the SGPC that if anyone wanted to visit Pakistan, then it should give an undertaking that the person was going there at one's own risk to which the Sikh religious body did not agree, he said.
     
     
    On being asked whether the neighbouring country was contemplating sending a train for the delegation up to the Attari-Wagha border, he said, "Permission was not given by the Centre. Therefore, there was no question of anybody going to Pakistan."
     
     
    Singh said some people were sent by a ferozepur-based NGO to the Attari border to protest against the Centre's decision.
     
     
     
     
    "But they were stopped by the police today ahead of Attari. When the permission has been declined by the Centre, how can one go to Pakistan," he said.
     
     
    Another delegation, which was to visit Pakistan last month for the martyrdom day of Guru Arjan Dev, was denied visa allegedly due to want of clearance from the Centre.

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