NEW DELHI, India—The Indian Home Ministry has temporarily suspended pilgrimage and registration for Gurdwara Sri Kartarpur Sahib as a precautionary measure to put control over coronavirus outbreak. From March 16, no devotee would be allowed to emigrate through Dera Baba Nanak terminal to pay obeisance at Gurdwara Sri Kartarpur Sahib via Kartarpur corridor.
Sharing the development with media, a government official informed that the Home Ministry has suspended pilgrimage to Kartarpur Sahib so that the spread of coronavirus could be controlled. “Not only Kartarpur instead movement of all types of passengers through international border points with Pakistan from March 16 onwards,” he added.
It is pertinent to note here that the Indian government has already suspended all types of passenger movement through land check posts with its other neighboring countries Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar and Bangladesh.
On March 13, the SGPC appointed Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh had asked the Indian government not to suspend pilgrimage to Kartarpur.
A similar ban by the Pakistan government is already in effect on Pakistani citizens since yesterday.
