SRINAGAR, Oct. 17 -- The registration of Sikh pilgrims for using the much-awaited Kartarpur Sahib corridor will begin in three days. The online system of registration will open on October 20. The 4.2 km-long corridor is to be opened on the occasion of the 550th Prakash Purb celebrations of Guru Nanak Dev on November 9.
The corridor, a joint project by India and Pakistan, will create a pilgrimage link between the Dera Baba Nanak shrine in Gurdaspur district and the Darbar Sahib in Pakistan. Pakistan will allow 5,000 pilgrims daily on the corridor that will link Dera Baba Nanak in India's Punjab state to Darbar Sahib gurdwara in Pakistan's Kartarpur.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to inaugurate the Indian side of the Kartarpur cor...