TIL Desk/World/UN/ India has accused Pakistan of violating the spirit of a UN resolution it had itself sponsored by transferring the control of the Kartarpur Sahib gurdwara to a non-Sikh body. “This act goes against Sikh religion and its preservation and protection,” Ashish Sharma, a First Secretary in India’s UN Mission, said on Wednesday.
Last year, Pakistan had sponsored the resolution, “Promotion of Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue, Understanding and Cooperation for Peace”, which called the opening of the Kartarpur corridor connecting the sacred shrine in Pakistan with the Dera Baba Nanak Sahib in India to facilitate pilgrimages “a landmark initiative for interreligious and intercultural cooperation for peace”.
However last month, it took away the control of the sacred shrine from the Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Prabhandhak Committee and handed it to the Evacuee Trust Property Board, a statutory government body set up to manage the land and temples of the Sikhs and Hindus who had fled to India during the partition.
Speaking during a General Assembly debate on the “Culture of Peace”, Sharma said: “Pakistan has already violated the earlier resolution on Culture of Peace passed last year by this very assembly by arbitrarily transferring the Kartarpur shrine’s management to the administrative control of a non-Sikh body.
