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The Pakistani Foreign Minister said his government had decided to open a new cross-border corridor to allow pilgrims belonging to the Sikh minority of neighboring India to visit their worship temple in Pakistan.
Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Thursday that the country's prime minister, Imran Khan, would lay the foundation stone for the construction of the Kartarpura Bridge in eastern Punjab province.
Pakistan and India have a history of bitter relations. They waged three of their two wars around Kashmir disputed since their accession to the independence of Britain in 1947. The latest initiative of Islamabad could help improve relations between the two sides.
Pakistan was once home to a large Sikh population, but most of them returned to India during the 1947 partition; There are only a few thousand people left in Pakistan.
