Ignoring the threat of terrorism, Sikhs Arrive
Indian sikhs arrive in Pakistan
from a featured article [1] by the DawnMediaGroup/Pakistan
Sunday Nov. 1, 2009:
Hundreds of Indian Sikh pilgrims arrived in Pakistan by a special train to participate in a festival to celebrate 541st birth anniversary of their spiritual leader Baba Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikh religion, at Nankana Sahib near Lahore.
The first special train carrying 2000 Sikh pilgrims arrived at the Pakistan-India border town of Wagah to celebrate at Nankana Sahib some 85 kilometers from Lahore.
Only a few miles from the site of a recent attack by the Taleban at the Manawaan Police Academy and warned by the Government of India against the danger of traveling in Pakistan at the current time, Sikhs by the hundreds arrived in boggies packed wall to wall with Sikhs in a mood of festivity; many with wide smiles on their faces - happy to be walking on the same soil on which Guru Nanak once walked. Many, 60 years of age and older, may be traveling through the countryside and villages in which they and their ancestors were born. With the schools in Pakistan only being allowed to open a few days before, because of the recent deadly attacks on an Islamic University and the Meena Bazaar in Peshawar, security has been greatly increased, but the threat of danger seems to be outweighed by the joy of returning to celebrate the birth of Guru Nanak in the very city where he was born. As the Sikhs say Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji ki Fateh.
