Pakistan issues visas to Indian Hindu Yatrees for visit to Temples

New Delhi: Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi has issued visas to two groups of Indian Hindu Yatrees in December this year for visit to their revered sites in Pakistan.

On December 21, a group of 47 Indian Hindu Yatrees has been issued visas. They would visit Shree Katas Raj Temples, also known as Qila Katas or complex of Katas Temples in Chakwal district of Punjab, Pakistan from December 23-29, 2020.

The Katas Raj temples surround a sacred pond for Hindu devotees.

Another group of 44 Indian Hindu Yatrees returned on December 21 from Pakistan where they participated in the 312th Birth Anniversary celebrations of Shiv Avtari Satguru Sant Shadaram Sahib, at Sukkur, Sindh from December 15-21, 2020, according to a release from Pakistan High Commission in Delhi.

More than three centuries old temple, Shadani Darbar, is a holy place for devotees from across the world.

The temple was founded in 1786 by Sant Shadaram Sahib, who was born in Lahore in 1708.

Thousands of Indian Sikh and Hindu pilgrims visit Pakistan under the bilateral Protocol on Visits to Religious Shrines of 1974, to observe several religious festivals/occasions every year.

The visas issued from New Delhi are in addition to the visas granted to Sikh and Hindu pilgrims participating in these events from other countries, it said.