Chandigarh, Sept. 15 -- Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today urged union Home Minister Amit Shah to review the home ministry's advisory to state governments not to process applications for Jathas for pilgrimage to Sri Nankana Sahib in Pakistan on the pious occasion of Prakash Purab of Sri Guru Nanak Dev ji in November this year.
In a statement here, the SAD president said Sikh pilgrims had undertaken visits to holy shrines in Pakistan under the framework of the Nehru-Liaquat Pact of 1950, which explicitly provides for visits by community members to Pakistan's holy shrines on at least four significant occasions, the most significant of them being the Parkash Gurpurab of Sri Guru Nanak Sahib.
Asserting that Sikh pil...