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Islamabad invited Swaraj, Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh, and state minister Navjot Singh Sidhu to the ceremony on November 28, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Saturday.
Swaraj, however, responded due to earlier engagements, including an election campaign in Telangana, that she could not travel to Kartarpur Sahib.
However, she said, aware of the feelings of Indian Sikh citizens and of the importance of facilitating their easy and unhindered access to the holy place, India will send to the ministers of the Union, Harsimrat Kaur Badal (Minister of Food Industries) and Hardeep Puri (MoS, Housing and Urban Affairs) in Kartarpur. She also expressed the hope that Pakistan will accelerate the construction of the corridor.
The last time Swaraj went to Pakistan – in December 2015 -, India and Pakistan resumed the process of bilateral dialogue.
The layout of the corridor would be one of the priorities of the Swaraj-Qureshi meeting, at the limit of the UN General Assembly, as proposed by Khan in September this year. The meeting was canceled by India after the assassination of SPO at J & K.
Pakistan said in a statement that its spirit in Kartarpur could be a step forward in the right direction, ranging from conflict to cooperation, from animosity to peace and hostility. to friendship.
"On behalf of Pakistan, I invited the Minister of External Affairs, Sushma Swaraj @SushmaSwaraj, Capt Amarinder Singh @capt_amarinder & Navjot Singh Sidhu @sherryontopp to attend the ceremony of inauguration of the works at #Kartarpura November 28, 2018. #PakistanKartarpuraSpirit, November 28, 2018..
On behalf of Pakistan, I invited the Minister of External Affairs, Sushma Swaraj, @SushmaSwaraj, Capt … https://t.co/YxFnkmI1RN.
– Shah Mahmood Qureshi (@SMQureshiPTI) 1543069345000
"We will only comment when we have received an official invitation," said Raveen Thukral, media advisor in Punjab, refusing to speculate that the CM is going to Pakistan for the inauguration ceremony.
Sidhu, who had created a huge controversy in August by embracing the head of the Pakistani army, General Qamar Javed Bajwa at Imran Khan's swearing-in ceremony, said he would attend at the event he was getting permission from the Center. "I received permission from Captain Amarinder Singh to travel to Pakistan for the November 28 event. I asked permission from the Center, "said Sidhu on the phone in Sidhu, Madhya Pradesh.
In India, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) announced that it would build the newly announced corridor to the international border of Punjab. The Ministry of Highways announced on Saturday that it would act as a four-lane highway with service roads and other facilities for pilgrims intending to visit Gurudwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan.
In a statement issued by the Ministry of Road Transport, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu will lay the foundation stone for the construction of the Dera Baba Nanak-Kartarpur Sahib road corridor on Monday. Minister of Highways Nitin Gadkari and Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh will also attend the ceremony at Mann Village in Gurdaspur District.
The Indian side of the corridor starts from Dera Baba Nanak in Gurdaspur district and extends to the international border. "This corridor will be a historic landmark between India and Pakistan and will also stimulate tourism as more pilgrims visit the holy shrine throughout the year between two countries," the ministry said.
Guru Nanak Dev had reunited the Sikh community in Kartarpur and had lived there for 18 years until 1539. The Gurudwara Darbar Sahib is built at the place where Guru Nanak breathed his last.
On the occasion of the 550th anniversary of the birth of Guru Nanak in 2019, the government announced on Thursday the construction of the Kartarpur corridor as an integrated development project. The corridor will allow Sikh pilgrims to visit the iconic Gurudwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur, on the banks of the Ravi River, Pakistan.
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