High Commissioner Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri remembers visit to Kartarpur Sahib Corridor

Covert Report

Canberra: Pakistani High Commissioner to Australia Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri this week remembered his visit to Kartarpur Sahib Corridor a couple of years ago.

“Reminded of my visit to Kartarpur Sahib Corridor accompanying the UNSG Hon Antonio Guterres. The Corridor, connecting Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan to Gurudwara Dera Baba Nanak in India, symbolises Pakistan’s commitment to interfaith harmony,” he said on X, along with a picture of the event.

Previously, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres hailed as the “symbol of interfaith harmony” an overland passage Pakistan recently opened for Sikh devotees from India to pay a visa-free homage to one of their holiest sites.

In a post-trip social media post, the UN chief had said he was honored to visit what he described as “a corridor of hope, connecting two key Sikh pilgrimage sites.”

The Gurdwara or shrine is believed to have been built on the site where the founder of Sikhism, Guru Nanak, lived and died in the 16th century. The 4.1-kilometer Kartarpur Corridor links the shrine to Dera Baba Nana temple in the northwestern border town of Gurdaspur on the Indian side.

Islamabad opened the facility, enabling Indian Sikhs to visit the temple in Kartarpur for the first time since 1947 when British India was divided into two independent states of India and Pakistan.