AMRITSAR, June 16 -- The Kartarpur Corridor has been closed from the Indian side for five weeks despite a prevailing ceasefire between India and Pakistan and growing calls for its reopening.

The last batch of the pilgrims visited the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, Kartarpur, on May 7 through this corridor. The Kartarpur Corridor provides visa-free access to the Indian pilgrims and NRIs to the sacred Sikh shrine. Amid the escalated tension between both the countries in the wake of 'Operation Sindoor' launched by India following the Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 people in Jammu and Kashmir, it was closed till further orders from the Indian side.

As the ceasefire was declared by both the countries, a ray of hope for its reopening had emerg...