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Over 2,100 Indian Sikh pilgrims crossed the Wagah-Attari border to attend a 10-day festival honoring Guru Nanak, fostering interfaith harmony amid ongoing India-Pakistan tensions.
- On Tuesday, Indian Sikh pilgrims crossed into Pakistan at the Wagah-Attari border to pay their respects ahead of Guru Nanak's 556th birth anniversary, AFP journalists said.
- More than 2,100 pilgrims received visas for the 10-day festival, Pakistan's High Commission in New Delhi said, while Indian media reported around 1,700 would cross from selected groups.
- On Wednesday, pilgrims will gather at Nankana Sahib about 80 kilometres west of Lahore and later visit Kartarpur, as the Kartarpur Corridor remains closed since the conflict.
- Relations are strained after the four-day May clashes, which killed more than 70 people and followed an April 22 attack that Pakistan denied, according to AFP.
- Pakistani officials greeted pilgrims with flowers and rose petals, while the Wagah-Attari border—the only active land crossing—remained closed to general traffic after the violence.
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Nearly 2,100 Indian Sikhs arrive in Pakistan for annual religious festivities
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) -- More than 2,000 Sikh pilgrims from India arrived Tuesday in eastern Pakistan to join an annual commemoration of the birth of their religion's founder, officials said, marking the first people-to-people contact between the two countries since a brief war in May.
In a first since Operation Sindoor, Indian pilgrims enter Pakistan to pray at Nankana Sahib
Around 2,100 Indian pilgrims received visas to visit Pakistan for Guru Nanak’s 556th birth anniversary celebrations, amid strained India-Pakistan relations following the alarming Pahalgam terror attack.
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