By Admin 
Pakistan High Commission has issued more than 6,500 visas for Indian devotees to participate in the annual Baisakhi festival to be held from 10-19 April. This information was given on Monday.
Every year, a large number of devotees from India go to Pakistan to follow various religious festivals or opportunities under the structure of Pakistan-India protocol on a visit to religious places of 1974.
“On the occasion of Baisakhi celebrations, Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi has issued more than 6,500 visas for the reverence of India to attend the annual festival to be held in Pakistan from 10-19 April,” Pak High Commission said in a statement.
It states that devotees, among other things, will visit Gurdwara Panja Sahib, Gurdwara Nankana Sahib and Gurudwara Kartarpur Sahib.
In India in -charge of Pakistan, Saad Ahmed Varaich said that a large number of visas issued by the Government of Pakistan are “a manner of our policy of promoting harmony and promoting understanding between people, cultures and religions.”
The statement quoted him as saying that Pakistan will continue to facilitate such visits to the holy and religious places. Earlier, the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) in Amritsar said on Monday that 1,942 pilgrims have been granted a visa to visit Gurudwaras in Pakistan to attend the annual Baisakhi festival to be held from 10-19 April.
The SGPC said that a batch of devotees will leave for Pakistan on Thursday. Pratap Singh, secretary of the top religious body of Sikhs, said that passports of 1,942 devotees were sent to the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi, who were given visas.