ISLAMABAD – Pakistan on Sunday welcomed India’s decision to send its twoUnion ministers to attend the groundbreaking ceremony of the Kartarpurcorridor next week, terming it a “positive response”.
Kartarpur Sahib in Pakistan is located across the river Ravi, about fourkilometres from the Dera Baba Nanak shrine in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district.It was established by the Sikh Guru in 1522. The first Gurdwara, GurdwaraKartarpur Sahib, was built here, where Guru Nanak Dev is said to have died.
Both India and Pakistan have announced that stretches would be developed intheir respective areas, linking Dera Baba Nanak in Punjab’s Gurdaspurdistrict with the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi welcomed India’s decision to sendUnion ministers Harsimrat Kaur Badal and Hardeep Singh Puri, Radio Pakistanreported.
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Qureshi termed Indias’s decision as a “positive response to Pakistan’smove”, it said.
