As Centre lifts ban, Sikh pilgrims get Pak. visas

1 NOVEMBER 2025

Around 2,100 Sikh pilgrims were issued visas by the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi after the Indian government reversed its stand of September 2025, allowing the groups to travel.
These groups, that plan to mark Sikh-founder Guru Nanak’s birth anniversary at Nankana Sahib, his birthplace in Pakistan, will be the first to be allowed to travel to Pakistan since Operation Sindoor.
Kartarpur Sahib is where Guru Nanak is believed to have spent his final years.
Even as the Pakistan government said that the groups would be facilitated to travel to Kartarpur Sahib as well, the Kartarpur Sahib corridor inaugurated by both countries in 2020 remains closed, indicating they will take a longer road route to reach the shrines.
The MHA website for the Kartarpur Corridor states that, “considering the extant security scenario, the services of Sri Kartarpur Sahib Corridor is suspended till further directions”.