Sikh pilgrims to visit Pak on Oct 28 for centenary event

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Sikh pilgrims will visit Pakistan for 'Saka Panja Sahib' centenary event
Sikh pilgrims will visit Pakistan for 'Saka Panja Sahib' centenary event

 

New Delhi

A group of 240 Sikh pilgrims will visit Pakistan on October 28 to participate in the 'Saka Panja Sahib' centenary event.

The event will be organized at the Gurdwara Panja Sahib located in Hasan Abdal, 45 km away from Rawalpindi.

The pilgrims will reach Pakistan from the Attari-Wagah border checkpoint on October 28 and will return to Amritsar on November 2.

They will also visit other historic Sikh shrines in Pakistan, including Gurdwara Panja Sahib and Nankana Sahib, as well as Lahore.

Saka Panja Sahib, the heroic event took place at Hasan Abdal railway station, close to the sacred shrine of Pahja Sahib October 30, 1922, when Sikh masses wanted to provide Langar (community meals) to Sikh prisoners.

But they were arrested for peaceful protests in Amritsar and sent by special trains to distant jails.

Around 200 Sikhs stopped a train forcefully carrying the Sikh prisoners to offer them food as authorities refused to halt the train at the station.

Some of them attained martyrdom in the incident as they lay on the track to stop the train. They were hailed as martyrs.

A three-day religious fair is held in their memory at Pahja Sahib from October 30 to November 1 every year.

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Accommodation for the visiting devotees will be arranged by the Pakistan government.