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	Podcast:		News and Views
	Episode:		375: Guru Nanak Jayanti: India-Pakistan Dialogue Crucial to Kartarpur
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:07:14
	Publish Date:		2018-11-26 04:37:17
	Description:		Even in the midst of tensions between New Delhi and Islamabad, certain links do remain intact – such as religious pilgrimages by the Sikhs to their holy shrines in Pakistan (of course, if relations were harmonious the number of pilgrims visiting Pakistan would be higher). The Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi recently issued 3,800 visas for Sikh pilgrims wanting to visit Pakistan to pay obeisance at Sikh shrines on the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev (the first Guru of the Sikhs) which happens to be on 23 November. A statement issued by the Pakistan High Commission highlighted the fact, that this is the largest number of visas issued in recent years to Sikh pilgrims.
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