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...and gurdwaras by activating the Akali Dal. A tower built in his memory is in Amritsar and there are special quarters for his contingent. Akali Ji led the army of Ranjit Singh in many battles and emerged victorious. He martyred while fighting Frontier Pa

...ngh aw.jpg|thumb|400px|right|{{cs|'''Interior of Gurdwara Bhai Joga Singh, Peshawar'''}}]] ...is named in honour of [[Bhai Joga Singh]], a young Gursikh who had lived in the presence of [[Guru Gobind Singh]] at Anandpur for many years.

...ng him with devotion. The early stone of the gurdwara was laid in 1966 and in 2008 a proper building was raised. Amrik Singh Hundal found the exact locat ...s relations, immediately setting out for [[Anandpur]]. The elation aroused in him by his prompt compliance with Guru's summons gradually turned into a se

...he world which is now called [[Pakistan]]. The [[Punjab]] was divided only in [[1947]] when the separate nations of [[India]] and [[Pakistan]] were forme A significant part of [[Sikh]] history is linked to places that are now in [[Pakistan]] including the village [[Nankana Sahib]] where [[Guru Nanak Dev

...hearts of these families who have since long taken shelter in several Sikh Gurdwaras of Pakistan, unfortunately now many families will have no homes to return ...d dumped in the houses occupied from the Sikh community was also destroyed in the air strikes. – ©Reuters]]

...Kaur at the village of Thikrivala, now in Sangrur district of the Punjab, .in January 1890. An attack of smallpox when he was barely two years old left h ...he remained from 1911 to 1915, thereafter shifting to Rawalpindi, his host in that town being Nanak Singh, then a rising poet, who later became famous as

'''Sikhism''', though today a very small minority religion in Pakistan, has many cultural, historical and political ties to the country, ...hs; Sikhs, Zoroastrians, Buddhists and Ahmaddis (legislated as non-Islamic in Pakistan) and some adherents to animist religions make up the remaining 1%.

...ad Shah Durrani]] in 1762. His father, Gurdial Singh Uppal, had taken part in many of the campaigns of the Sukkarchakkias [[Charat Singh Sukkarchakia]] a ...yber Pass at Jamrud, permanently blocking this route of the invaders. Even in his death, Hari Singh Nalwa's formidable reputation ensured victory for the

...a Panja Sahib''' is situated at [[Hasan Abdal]], 48 km from [[Rawalpindi]] in [[Pakistan]]. This is one of the most holy places of [[Sikhism]] because it The word "Panja" in [[Punjabi]] means an "outstretched palm" from the word "panj" which means "

In 1705, [[Guru Gobind Singh ji]] went to [[Machiwala]] after leaving [[Anan ...Raikot state, the Muslim Chief Rai Kalha welcomed him and felt honored in offering his servicesto Guru Sahib as his guest for as long as he wanted

...h_1.JPG|thumb|right|300px|A very old painting of AKALI PHULA SINGH printed in 1923]] ...o was the head granthi of Sri Darbar Sahib. In no time he was well trained in Gurbaani Vidya and all the martial arts and ended up becoming the leader of

...[[Jalandhar]] or [[Chandigarh]]; elsewhere in [[India]] they tend to live in cities, particularly [[Delhi]]. ...rasvati River|Saraswati River]] that once flowed parallel to the [[Indus]] in present day Kashmir, Himachal, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan regions. As the i

...not just a particular geographical area. Similarly, the All-Knowing Guru, in keeping with the traditional ways of the preceeding Gurus, knowing the core ...ot mean ‘sect’, but rather '''''order''''', as in an '''order of monks'''. In this sense a sampardaya represents one among several mutually complementary

...horses; they even otherwise regarded Sikhism as no different from Hinduism in its social milieu. ...for the whole of Punjab including the cis-Sutlej princely states. Sikhism, in the words of Census Commissioner, Denzil Ibbetson, was “on the decline”