The first batch of 562 Indian Sikh pilgrims entered Pakistan to offer prayers at Gurudwara Darbar Sahib through newly built 4km Kartarpur corridor which was inaugurated on 9th November by PM Narendra Modi in Gurudaspur.
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To celebrate 550th Guru Nanak Jayanti special train has been launched connecting all the important sites linked to Guru Nanak Ji.
PM Modi released a commemorative coin celebrating 550th Birth Anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev.
9th November is of significant importance as on this day the Berlin Wall fell and also in 1989 Shilanyas of Ram Mandir was done and today itself historic verdict of Ayodhya was given.
PM Modi said, “I want to thank Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi as he understood and honoured the feelings of Indians about the Kartarpur Corridor and worked towards its completion.” Using his full name with the word Niazi was seen as a veiled jibe by political analysts.
Former PM Manmohan Singh, his wife Gursharan Kaur, Punjab CM Amarinder Singh, Union ministers Hardeep Puri and Som Prakash were present at the inaugural ceremony.
Shiromani Gurudwara Prabhandak Committee felicitated the Prime Minister with the Quami Seva Award.
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General A.A.K. Niazi was a former lieutenant-general in the Pakistan Army and the last Governor of East Pakistan, known for commanding the Eastern Command of the Pakistan Army in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) during the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war until the unilateral surrendering on the 16 December 1971 to Lieutenant General Jagjit Singh Aurora of the Eastern Command and the Bengali Liberation Forces. Niazi had the area responsibility of defending the borders of East Pakistan from India and was held morally responsible by authors and critics within Pakistan’s military for surrendering the Eastern Command, consisting of ~92,000 – 95,000 servicemen, to the Indian Army when the preparations were underway to lay siege on Dacca. After being taken and held as a prisoner of war by the Indian Army, he was repatriated to Pakistan on 30 April 1975. Niazi was dishonored from his military service after confessing at the War Enquiry Commission led by Chief Justice Hamoodur Rahman. The War Commission leveled accusations against him for human rights violations, supervising the smuggling of goods during the civil war in the East and held him morally responsible for military failure during the course of the war. More Info
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