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Former PM Dr. Manmohan Singh invited for inauguration of Kartarpur Sahib corridor
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- Foreign Minister of Pakistan Shah Mahmood Qureshi issued video statement in which he has invited Dr. Singh for inauguration of Kartarpur Sahib Corridor on behalf of Government of Pakistan.
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- Kartarpur Sahib Corridor Project
(1) The Kartarpur Sahib Corridor Project was first proposed in 1999 by the then Atal Bihari Vajpayee Government.
(2) The Gurudwara Kartarpur Sahib is the place where Sikh Guru Nanak assembled a Sikh community and lived there for 18 years until his death in 1539.
(3) 9th November 2019 marks the550thbirthanniversary of GuruNanakDev on which the corridor is scheduled to be inaugurated.
(4) The Kartarpur corridor is being built by India and Pakistan to connect Darbar Sahib-the final resting place of Guru Nanak Dev-in Pakistan's Kartarpur with Dera Baba Nanak shrine in Gurdaspur district of Punjab.
Source
The Hindu