Resolution against construction on Kartarpur land submitted in PA

Draft says land used by Baba Guru Nanak for farming must be used for same purpose and yields given in Gurdwara langar

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MPA Momina Waheed on Saturday submitted a resolution in the Punjab Assembly demanding that no building be constructed on the land that was used by Baba Guru Nanak for farming in Kartarpur.

The resolution said that Gurdwara Kartarpur held special significance for the Sikh community and the number of visitors from India had increased after the opening of Kartarpur corridor.

The lawmaker said the house recognised the fact that Baba Guru Nanak ploughed the fields around Gurdwara Kartarpur for 18 years and distributed their yields among the poor. The name ‘Kartarpur’ to this particular site in Narowal was also given by Baba Guru Nanak.

The resolution demanded that “no construction should be carried out in the fields where he grew crops”.



The lawmaker said the building should be constructed in another area so that the sentiments of Sikh community were not hurt.

The resolution demanded that land used by Baba Guru Nanak for farming must be used for the same purpose and the yields from it be given in the Gurdwara Kartarpur langar.

On January 26, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said the government had prepared the feasibility report of Kartarpur corridor project and would spend Rs2 billion on it.

Addressing a rally in Umerkot, Qureshi said the Sikh community was very happy over the opening of Kartarpur corridor and Pakistan had received an overwhelming response on this gesture from the entire world.

Prime Minister Imran Khan inaugurated work on development of the Kartarpur corridor in November last year. Islamabad took the initiative of opening the corridor to narrow the trust deficit with New Delhi as it has been preventing the resumption of bilateral dialogue.

Pakistan is to construct the nearly four-kilometre-long corridor from the border to the Gurdwara in Kartarpur Sahib, whereas India will develop the corridor from Dera Baba Nanak, in East Punjab’s Gurdaspur district, to the border.