Pakistan government did not give permission to jatha due to the pandemic situation.
Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) president Jagir Kaur said that giving the reason of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pakistan government has not given permission to jatha.
�SGPC was fully prepared to send the jatha across the border to Pakistan and so far, the Indian government had also not raised any kind of restriction on the jatha�, said Bibi Jagir Kaur.
SGPC�s assistant secretary media Kulwinder Singh Ramdas said, �The pilgrimage Department of SGPC talked telephonically to Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee’s (PSGPC’s) president Satwant Singh, who informed that due to the COVID-19 situation the jatha coming to Pakistan on the occasion of Shaheedi Diwas (martyrdom day) of the fifth Guru has not been given permission by the government.�
Kulwinder Singh said that the jatha was scheduled to depart for Pakistan on June 6 to mark the martyrdom day on June 14.
�The pilgrims who had deposited their passports for going to Pakistan on the occasion of martyrdom day of Sri Guru Arjan Dev Ji, can collect them back from the SGPC�s Yatra Department�, said Kulwinder Singh.