Summary FM Qureshi conveyed to the Indian side Pakistan's readiness to reopen the corridor.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has on Saturday said Pakistan is preparing to reopen the Kartarpur Sahib Corridor for all Sikh pilgrims as places of worship open across the world.
The foreign minister took to Twitter and conveyed to the Indian side Pakistan’s readiness to reopen the corridor on June 29, 2020 – the occasion of the death anniversary of Maharaja Ranjeet Singh.
As places of worship open up across the world, Pakistan prepares to reopen the Kartarpur Sahib Corridor for all Sikh pilgrims, conveying to the Indian side our readiness to reopen the corridor on 29 June 2020, the occasion of the death anniversary of Maharaja Ranjeet Singh.
— Shah Mahmood Qureshi (@SMQureshiPTI) June 27, 2020
The corridor – inaugurated on November 9, 2019, by Prime Minister Imran Khan on the eve of the 550th birth anniversary of Baba Guru Nanak – was temporarily closed on March 16 due to the increasing number of coronavirus cases.
