Baba Chamliyal Sarkar festival cancelled

SIALKOT: The organisers announced on Thursday that the three-day festival celebrations of Baba Chamliyal Sarkar in a border village have been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Every year a festival is held in a far-off border village named Tulsipur-Charwah in June. Thousands of people flock to the locale to join the celebrations every year.

Moreover, the joint official wreath-laying ceremony by the Chenab Rangers and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) was also cancelled owing to mounting border tensions between the two neighbouring countries.

Thousands of devotees on both sides of the Sialkot Working Boundary participate in the separate fairs held in Pakistan and India.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 26^th, 2020.