The Ministry of External Affairs of India asked Pakistan to reverse its “arbitrary decision” to hand over the management of Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara to a muslim body which have no Sikh representatives.
On November 3, Pakistan’s religious affair ministry handed over the management of Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara to “Project Management Unit” under the Evacuee Trust Property Board which is a government department that overseas the shrines of country’s minorities.
In November last year, the two countries threw open a corridor linking Dera Baba Sahib in Gurdaspur in India with Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib in Pakistan, in a historic people-to-people initiative.
Earlier the gurdwara was under the management of the Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee. This is also the first time that the Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee out of the management of a gurdwara in Pakistan.