Kartarpur corridor

In news– Ahead of Parkash Purb of Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the Government of India has decided to reopen the Kartarpur Sahib corridor.

About Kartarpur(peace) corridor–

The 4-km-long corridor links Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan, the final resting place of Sikhism founder Guru Nanak Dev, to Dera Baba Nanak shrine in Punjab‘s Gurdaspur district.
It is the place where the founder of Sikhism Guru Nanak is believed to have spent the last 18 years of his life.
It allows Sikh pilgrims to travel visa-free to the Kartarpur gurdwara via the Attari-Wagah border.
It was inaugurated on November 9, 2019 to mark the 550th “Parkash Guruparab (birth anniversary)” of Guru Nanak.
India had signed an agreement with Pakistan on October 24, 2019 on the modalities for operationalization of the Kartarpur Corridor at Zero Point, International Boundary, Dera Baba Nanak.
The proposal for the special corridor was first pitched back in 1999 by former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and his then Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif.

Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur/ Kartapur Sahib–

It is a gurdwara in Kartarpur, located in Shakargarh, Narowal District, in the Punjab province of Pakistan.
Guru Nanak ji founded Kartarpur in 1504 CE on the right bank of the Ravi River and established the first Sikh commune there.
Following his death in 1539, Hindus and Muslims both claimed him as their own and raised mausoleums in his memory with a common wall between them.
The changing course of the Ravi River eventually washed away the mausoleums.
A new habitation was formed, representing the present-day Dera Baba Nanak on the left bank of the Ravi river.
Guru Nanak, settled and assembled the Sikh community here after his missionary travels and lived for 18 years until his death in 1539.
Here, he gave the three principles of Kirat Karo, Naam Japo, Wand Chako, which means work hard for a livelihood, keep remembering the God and share your bounties with the world.
It is one of the holiest sites in Sikhism, alongside the Golden Temple in Amritsar and Gurdwara Janam Asthan in Nankana Sahib.