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India 'Prevented' Sikh Pilgrims From Visiting Country: Pakistan

Darpan News Desk IANS, 09 Jun, 2017 11:30 AM
    Pakistan has alleged that India has prevented some Sikh pilgrims from travelling to the country for the annual Jor Mela as only 14 devotees have arrived so far.
     
     
    The Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi had issued visas to 80 Sikh pilgrims but 66 of them couldn’t reach Lahore as “India stopped them at Attari Railway Station citing technical reasons,” Pakistani authorities said.
     
     
    “The Samjhauta Express train left for Attari on Thursday to bring 80 Sikhs for Jor Mela but when it reached there its staff was told by Indian authorities that the Sikh pilgrims couldn’t board it as their visa only allows them to go to Pakistan on a special train,” said Amir Hashmi, spokesman, Evacuee Trust Property Board, which looks after the minority holy places in Pakistan.
     
     
    Hashmi told that the Pakistan Railways was willing to send a special train to India to ferry the pilgrims but the Indian authorities didn’t allow.
     
     
     
    “Fourteen of the total 80 pilgrims had a visa allowing them to enter Pakistan by road. They crossed Wagah Border by foot where the ETPB officials received them,” Hashmi said.
     
     
    Jor Mela is observed to mark the death anniversary of fifth Sikh guru, Guru Arjan Dev. The 10-day festival, which is also called Shaheedi Jor Mela, will be held at Panja Sahib and Gurdwara Dera Sahib in Lahore.
     
     
    The 14 pilgrims were taken to Gurdwara Panja Sahib Hasan Abdal.
     
     
    The Sikh pilgrims will return to India through the Wagah border on June 17, according to a report on Radio Pakistan.

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