Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Apr 1: The Government of PoJK has proposed that on the same lines as the Kartarpur corridor has been built between the two countries, the Sharda Peeth corridor should be opened as well, and people from India should be allowed to undertake the pilgrimage.
The Kashmiri Pandit community has welcomed the PoJK Assembly’s decision. Save Sharda Committee Kashmir has been pushing for the opening of the corridor since 2004.
”We have got to know that the assembly of Pakistan occupied Jammu Kashmir has passed a resolution about the opening of the Sharda corridor. We welcome it. Civil society needs to be congratulated. We recently set up a temple at Teetwal on this side which was inaugurated by Home Minister Amit Shah and he on that day said that they will work on the opening of the corridor. The civil society has a role, and we want it to be opened on the same pattern as Kartarpur and it will be a great confidence-building measure,” said Ravindra Pandita, Head and Founder, Save Sharda Committee.
Recently, Sharda Mata Temple was inaugurated near the Line of Control in the Teetwal area of the Kupwara district. Home Minister Amit Shah virtually inaugurated the temple and had said that the Government of India will try for the opening of Sharda Peeth on the lines of the Kartarpur Corridor.
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