Pakistan appoints officer on advert hoc foundation to handle the affairs of Kartarpur Corridor

The 4-km lengthy Kartarpur Corridor hyperlinks Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan’s Punjab province.

Lahore,UPDATED: Dec 9, 2022 23:29 IST

File photograph of Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan (Image: PTI)

By Press Trust of India: Pakistan’s federal authorities has appointed an official on an advert hoc foundation for a interval of three months to deal with the affairs of the landmark Kartarpur Corridor.

The 4-km lengthy Kartarpur Corridor hyperlinks Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan’s Punjab province, the ultimate resting place of Sikhism founder Guru Nanak Dev, to Dera Baba Nanak shrine in India’s Punjab state.

The hall permits Indian Sikh pilgrims to go to certainly one of their holiest websites, located in Pakistan, with out a visa.

Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB), the federal physique, which takes care of holy locations of minorities in Pakistan, issued a notification on Wednesday of the appointment of the Project Management Unit Kartarpur Corridor Chief Executive Officer for 3 months.

According to the notification, ETPB Additional Secretary (Admin) Sanaullah Khan was handed the cost of the CEO Project Management Unit Kartarpur Corridor for 3 months ‘as a stop-gap association.’

“Moreover, the selection of the CEO Project Management Unit Kartarpur Corridor has been processed so that the deputed officer may be advised to handle the affairs of the Kartarpur Corridor project carefully in coordination with all law enforcement agencies due to its strategic and international significance,” it stated.

Before Khan, a senior officer of ETPB, Rana Shahid was accountable for dealing with the affairs on the Kartarpur Corridor.

When the Kartarpur Corridor challenge was launched in November 2019, Brig (R) Muhammad Latif was appointed the primary CEO Project Management Unit Kartarpur Corridor (Gurdwara Darbar Sahib).

Several months in the past, Latif’s contract was terminated, for which the federal authorities supplied no legitimate causes.

Since then, the ETPB has been managing the affairs of the Kartarpur Corridor by appointing officers on an advert hoc foundation.

The Economic Coordination Committee of the Federal Cabinet had in 2020 permitted the institution of the Project Management Unit (PMU) Kartarpur Corridor, a self-financing physique for the administration and upkeep of Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur beneath the executive management of ETPB.

Earlier, the ETPB was solely taking care of the affairs of the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib. In November 2019, the then Prime Minister Imran Khan formally inaugurated the Kartarpur Corridor as a part of the commemoration of the 550th start anniversary of Guru Nanak at a ceremony that paved the way in which for Indian Sikh pilgrims to go to certainly one of their holiest websites, located in Pakistan, with out a visa.

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Dec 9, 2022