A Sikh jatha comprising over 2,100 devotees will travel to Pakistan to celebrate the Parkash Purb of Guru Nanak Dev on November 4. The move follows the decision of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) earlier this month to lift restrictions on cross-border pilgrimages.

The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has received visas for 1,796 devotees from the Pakistan embassy to undertake the pilgrimage to Gurdwara Janam Asthan in Nankana Sahib. They will return on November 13.

This will be the first jatha to go across the border after Operation Sindoor in which India and Pakistan came close to a full-scale war following the Pahalgam terror attack.

Palwinder Singh, incharge, Yatra Vibhag, of the SGPC, said he returned from Delhi today after getting the visas from the Pakistan embass

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