10 Facts About Kartarpur Corridor

Kartarpur Corridor is a visa-free border crossing and religious corridor, connecting the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, near Lahore in Pakistan to Gurudwara Dera Baba Nanak, Gurdaspur district, Punjab, India.

Kartarpur Corridor was first proposed in early 1999 by Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Nawaz Sharif, the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan respectively at that time, as part of the Delhi–Lahore Bus diplomacy.

Previously, Sikh pilgrims from India had to take a bus to Lahore to get to Kartarpur Corridor, which is a 125 kilometres journey, even though people on the Indian side of the border could physically see Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur Corridor from the Indian side, where an elevated observation platform was constructed.

On 17 November 2021, the Kartarpur Corridor re-opened after over a year and a half of closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

However, Kartarpur Corridor was not among the sites included in the 1974protocol.

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Gobind Singh, the caretaker of the gurdwara at Kartarpur Corridor, said the gurdwara had "remained shut from 1947 to 2000".

The Kartarpur Corridor mission was initially started by Bhabishan Singh Goraya, who pursued the cause for 24 years.

The Indian Sikh delegation that included former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the then Indian Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, the then Tourism Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu and actor-turned-politician Sunny Deol arrived through Kartarpur Corridor to celebrate the 550th anniversary of the birth of Guru Nanak and attended the inauguration ceremony on the special invitation from the then Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan.

Kartarpur Corridor mentioned that Alexander III of Macedon won the heart of people by fighting, while Khan won hearts of many Sikhs around the world by giving access to their holy land Kartarpur.

Kartarpur Corridor claimed that universality symbolised by Guru Nanak can bring the people of all religions together.