India on Tuesday summoned Pakistan’s charge d’affaires in Delhi to express concern about the “desecration of the sanctity” of the Gurdwara...
India on Tuesday summoned Pakistan’s charge d’affaires in Delhi to express concern about the “desecration of the sanctity” of the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur after a model posed bareheaded in a photo shoot there.
The gurdwara, built at the site where Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism, is believed to have died in 1539, is one of the holiest shrines for Sikhs.
In 2019, India and Pakistan had inaugurated the Kartarpur Corridor to link Gurdwara Darbar Sahib to the Dera Baba Nanak shrine in India’s Gurdaspur district.
Last week, the woman, Sauleha, who describes herself as a digital creator on her Instagram profile, had posted photos and videos of herself at Gurdwara Darbar Sahib. The pictures were also shared by a clothing brand.
Such behaviour & act at pious place of Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji is totally unacceptable!
— Manjinder Singh Sirsa (@mssirsa) November 29, 2021
Can she dare to do the same at her religious place in Pakistan?@ImranKhanPTI @GovtofPakistan shd tk immed action to stop this trend of treating Sri Kartarpur Sahib as picnic spot by Pak people pic.twitter.com/AwyIkmqgbC
Manjinder Singh Sirsa, the head of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee, said in a tweet on Monday that the model’s behaviour was unacceptable. Sirsa called on the government of Pakistan to...
