Sikh pilgrims arrive in Pakistan for Baisakhi festival

Lahore: A delegation of 1,100 Sikh pilgrims from India arrived in Pakistan today to participate in the Baisakhi festival and visit several historic gurdwaras.

Officials of the Evacuee Trust Property Board and Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee greeted the pilgrims when they arrived by a special train at Wagah railway station.




Special banners with messages of welcome in English and Hindi were put up by authorities.

ETPB Deputy Secretary Fraz Abbas told a news agency that 1,100 'yatris' had arrived in the special train.

"A second batch of some 400 Sikhs will reach here by train later," he said.

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