nice you send people to do porn to nearly. mom. i will swallow story. must. starts in january 27th on d w. relations between india and pakistan are somewhat in tangled affair rather like at 1st glance the turban gone by sikh men. i'm going deep seeing is curious to know what happens when an indian sikh like himself travels to pakistan. he's decided to embark on a pilgrimage and for the 1st time in his life crossed the border to get a new car top 4 corridor. they have a bog stick. so here's the thing quite a good place to do it like

a muslim it is a big the mecca. for a monday the journey is also a sentimental one visiting the homeland of his ancestors and to the other half of this culture split in 2 by the partition of india and pakistan in 1947. a former indian consul general the pakistan explains. good god put his very very. stress it was very very very important with him and don't forget that it is probably the sikhs who suffered the most at partition the sikhs who lost the most at partition and the sikhs also who retaliated the was at partition. how did the tiny minority of seats become such an important political issue for the 2 powerful nations. we could talk for change anything could the see. could it be

a testing ground for peace between india and pakistan more than 70 years after their partition. as we travel through india and pakistan when john we come across new hopes and fears the. book of. the new border crossing is located just a few hours drive south of kashmir the region india and pakistan have fought 2 wars over since their foundation and where they remain on a hostile footing with each other. but here on the ground in punjab at the entrance to the car talk or corridor the mood is currently a peaceful even relaxed while. the indian subcontinent is home to over one and a half 1000000000 people 20000000 of them are sikhs most of them like a monday live in the punjab

a region that was torn apart by the partition of india and pakistan. for more than 70 years there was only one border crossing but now there's a new one the top of. a monday makes its final preparations for a journey that he expects will change as we're. going. to. the top of the body goes. it is. to be. seen has seen a lot of the world he spent a number of years in birmingham england and it's also travelled extensively across india and to dubai but this is his 1st trip to a politically conscious place. for this purpose the dentist has transformed his small car into a kind of passengers. he's joined on this expedition to the unfamiliar larger neighbor by his wife. conducts

one last online check before setting off a video on the top card on. the card. for kilometers of freshly paved road for indian seeks a new highway to a holy site at least in part and pakistan the world's largest sikh temple. it's where the founder of their religion spent the last years of his life in the 16th century and is now buried it's a place that every sikh wants to visit once in their life. the 1st group of pilgrims set up for 4 also known as. the november 29th. the date on which the border was inaugurated was no coincidence november 9th the anniversary of the fall so when was. it was opened on the indian side by prime minister narendra modi. and almost at the same time but not in the same place by his pakistani counterpart even

on friday. it had been almost 20 years since plans for such a order are reversed proposed klyde an indian premier a caused b. honeybunch fight. and it's in that spirit of peace that iman deep and keyed out are now making their trip. they were both born in punjab not far from where they now live in with. their making the trip on behalf of their respective families and are among the 1st to have been granted permission to go to qatar. i'm excited i am. living the moment i saw many video of the many big as many people going across but me visiting that place will be a good feeling physically and money to live. on in the region

and that if you think that it didn't think many and wyndham's in. their journey takes them through the indian part of the punjab the bread basket of india and the only indian state where sikhs comprise the majority population the rule even romantic region is home to a chain of the 20000000 indian seats. as well as a monday can keep. them within pakistan are also under way on sikh holidays believers are required to visit a temple or. ideally one of the especially holy places like one kind of psyche birthplace of the religions founder would amount to. something that. one kind of sucky plies a good 3 hour drive away from cardboard this is where put into seeing lives of

works. man was. i'm going along with the 1st secretly who migrated here after 947. my grandfather and his 2 brothers were the 1st ones to come of it all. sikh families had moved from here to india during the partition 947 that it partitioned it. and at that time it was difficult for us with pakistanis see it with a target to live here. today pakistan has an estimated 6 population of just 20000 in a country of 220000000 muslims 28 year old put in there has strong thoughts about the country's partition over 70 years ago. i could see our indian seeing brothers on the other side they would look at their good water through binoculars that was their way of being respected and homage to the shrine for just a single glimpse of the temple these people traveled thousands of kilometers across india. we accompany sink to the pakistani to one kind of psyche where

a sense of tradition meets a more future oriented album as typified by seeing the tools of his trade or laptop and camera he's a youtube video grapher with a very specific target audience. being the team behind the plunger journal are trying to increase the love between pakistan and india because they have so much in common. and we don't understand the reasons for the hate between the 2 nations that are living under. the temple of one kind of sucking he sings favorite filming location his videos provide an insight into the secret religious or. on feast days the ceremonial reader or carries the holy book into the temple on his head an expression of respect together with the ceremonial family.

sick. sick sick mean someone who learns. in sikhism there is one god he is the almighty and the creator and lord over everything. he is infinite and the supreme god he is the god of. truth and he takes care of all living things got to work. women have equal rights in the sikh religion and there is no caste system as a hinduism the belief in one god and one book of faith is a concept also familiar to muslims while hindus recognise the notion of guru 76 retreats. good or not adopted a range of ideas from the great religions he was surrounded by but also added his own notably the 3 basic principles praying and thinking of god earning a living by honest means and sharing the fruits of one's labor with others. that's why sikh temples all offer free food and drink to visitors regardless of

their religious affiliation those who work hard eager to share tend to make friends this is perhaps another reason for the growing social presence of seeds in pakistan . obviously being fit i thought over the last 20 years we sikhs gradually started to become a more prominent in society as you can see in my own family. some of us are in the army some are professors doctors engineers. and one of our boys is in the rangers at end of it he said i want to have so this created a sense of pride amongst us and now you can see sikhs represented in every field here even though we're a modest mollusk minorities in the country. that. the temple next door has been draped in a special show of lights to celebrate good or not birthday. here we meet one of just relatives who was also enjoyed professional success. by hendon policy. with

a proud member of the provincial assembly when john. started i met the government of i had 6 but i am the sole sikh parliamentarian in pakistan. there's nothing better than being born in. same place where sikhism was born and already legend began we beginning to get religion just said was i'm so proud of that. for my hand at the cut is the fruit of joint efforts at a political and religious level. pool and the daddy qatar poor car door is not a recent idea. it's the result of many decades of prayers byo seeks. in the islamic republic of pakistan religious tolerance is far from a given. by hender looks to the good example set by his fellow believers. the

artistic known sikhs from all over the world are kind of ambassadors for pakistan to me and when they see the love and respect they receive from us god they will then know that we are a loving and peaceful nation. like all sikh temples this one is funded primarily via donations. the money increasingly comes from the us canada and britain where the majority of sikhs outside the indian subcontinent live. but it's the stance of indian sikhs that is decisive for the region. when i listen to them when our indian visitors go back they will take away the message enough. violence or fighting resolves nothing we have to sit together and talk and for that reason the car top 4 corridor will become the country or poor peace corridor. in new delhi veteran foreign policy

expert money shankar aiyar attributes this primarily to the sikhs in pakistan this is a symbol of the importance. to reconcile the community with them. and don't forget that it is probably the sikhs who suffered the most at partition the sikhs who lost the most at partition and there are the sikhs also who retaliated the was at partition. the history of the sikhs is one of glory and misery triumphs and defeats of suffering and inflicting pain and nowhere is this legacy more visible or tangible than in. the cradle of sikh culture an indian. a monday to his wife stepped up to visit his brother who lives nearby and now have their nice with them to visit the

1st and only partition museum on the indian subcontinent. the museum was opened in 2017 a town hall of them gets up to mark the 70th anniversary of partition most of the collection comprises photos and memorabilia of people directly affected by the partition ruins and life size replicas fair witness to the victims and give visitors a very physical and emotional impression of the suffering. 40 percent of the population you know operated completely from where the site. people lost their lives there are names. used it's been 70 years and wound up not the. in june 1907 the british had agreed to separate muslim pakistan from the predominantly hindu india and grant the 2 nations independence barely 3 months later. the british wanted to rule here so it was their policy to do why do why does it is one of the

you know blackest step in the colonial rule. you know you know we meet people whole with the white bed and you know. even expecting the apology from british parliament up until the very last minute the british left open exactly where the border with my. the ratcliffe line named after the british chairman of the boundary committee was drawn in an arbitrary manner with dramatic consequences to the independence that are involved like a disease in punjab it was like a leg up leg immediately we started losing people. there and whenever independence day comes i pleased to being up and. you know i cannot relate myself to the celebration because i cannot ignore this i cannot ignore the suffering. the enforced population transfers in the provinces of punjab and then god for unprecedented with up to 20000000 displaced persons and 1000000 dead. there are no

exact figures only bitter memories of the past and fears for the future. visiting this museum bringing fear in my heart and i'm comparing that 947 moment of it today and same thing is happening today as a we should try to do something so they can not think that it will happen again. what a month deep is referring to is the other element in the pakistani division. the region has a predominantly muslim population with a large hindu minority and both countries continue to press claims to be entire territory. to. a visit to the museum provides an alternative perspective of the present what they would have already gone didn't do they really want that it is on the history from their point of view i read the history but everything what ben i'm coming to a museum in this age i'm watching many new things and that's that it

generation should be told about the mistakes. at the earliest age. in the partition museum the thorny tree representing relations between india and pakistan has leaf spring friendly wishes. but cuba has also experienced a less promising stayed. affairs. but history is being changed i am a teacher and each year courses and the syllabus is being changed especially history books by replacing chapters in them. just a 10 minute walk away from the sobering partition museum is a truly resplendent site and one intimately connected to the history of the sikhs the golden temple of. their holiest site and indian soil it dates from the 16th and 17th centuries. in modern times it was

the site of a traumatic event but spent etched into the memory of 6. 19 eighty-four there was a massacre genocide a killing of an entire generation of sikhs in delhi after that even to this day we were advised not to talk about to move forward to move on. in 19846 wanted to create their own state a college that independent of india with as its capital. fearing further independence movements the then indian prime minister indira gandhi ordered the army to storm the temple to dislodge sikh extremists who had been using it as a refuge around 500 sikhs died in the ensuing gunfire. a few weeks later indeed a gandhi was murdered by to seek bodyguards and he broke out and hundreds of innocent

civilians were killed those responsible were eventually sentence over 30 years after the crime. we used to look at the ruins left by the massacre and think did this actually happen in an independent and free india are we not part of and why did it have to come to that later on we gradually try to take a more information but we did not find any answers. for sikhs the golden temple in number will always be associated with mixed feelings and bitter memories of the storming by the indian army. it was certainly the most dogs seen on in the bin in india and on the congress party and on that as you got the government programs despite apology that had been demanded subsequent it will be difficult for any historian to see this tree that has been wiped out. after taking some valuable history lessons on board for the journey to

a potentially brighter future a monday no hands were cut and finds time to. never comes easy it never does look better how much effort you've poured how much time as you know you can do it but in today's political scenario but given these donations it on account of a very bold step. and. thanks to him that it is happening and we believe it is going to be a wonderful step between the nation then thought about it in. this part of the indian punjab has benefited from recent developments the equivalent of several 1000000 euros were invested in building few kilometers of new road across the sandy plain and the approach to car talk on the road was years in the planning but even after the opening it still resembles a building site as does the futuristic looking visitor center. barely visible in

the haze as the much awaited destination. for sahib now just 2 passport check points away. a monday and q not have almost reached their final goal visitor numbers are limited to 5000 a day now a few weeks after the opening the initial rush has subsided. filming is not officially permitted beyond the gates but the indian authorities have provided an online computer animation of its passenger terminals their passport checks like at an airport but no visa requirements and. it's hard to describe how i feel i'm on the pakistani side of the punjab. face to face i've just gone through immigration from the indian side and then i'll do the same on the pakistani side you can see the past behind it i'm about to get on it and i'll go to the top or psyche i have a lot of mixed emotions right now ok. thank.

you know it would you know generation has prayed to make it very easy for us to be here today is the whole we had to do was put out a form at the border and officials from both countries welcome don. and now i would like to thank all of those who might there's a positive for us on what not to do you know knee is our de lay eggs the bubble but i know. this is it wasn't the end result he resigned over the snooty. powerless step here normally in sync with the way the daughter of. the. day. and finally the pogroms dream becomes reality. followed by you well but. you know. unfortunately film cameras are not allowed

inside the complex but she doubts photos and personal accounts do give us an impression of how well preserved the historical interior is and of the other many visitors they met people of all ages and social classes. the visitors are not only sikhs. they also include people from all religions and regions of the subcontinent curious to see the site. you know i appreciate how people have showered us with love we spent the 1st quarter of an hour just hugging and meeting everyone else and it's easy to be treated but everyone here is really passionate and full of life like to. meet strangers come up to say hello to you and longer here they tell us about their own village and they ask us about ours you know their. encounters with an impact lasting longer than the one day visit a lot and we all have to be stakeholders in those we have to put more effort into

this initiative this project needs to for violin we need more initiatives to be taken for the world to which it. is open to visitors for just 8 hours a day indian citizens are not allowed to visit other temples on pakistani soil so the scenes are now be handed over. back to india for amandeep family are waiting in their village for a full report on this journey. to get it is one thing i cannot say that no one there was trying to take credit or saying they want to hide the initiative all of them said are saying the thing that i say is good or not. it is your right to come here and write as on everyone says i found no one who said otherwise. i'm excited and looking forward to telling

everyone about my experience and encouraging them to go to know if there are some people who are wary when they hear them and what i would have to read them to go and experience it is it. up until now the car thought for corridor is only open to indians traveling to pakistan but not vice versa. among deep would like to see pakistani sikhs benefiting to. we need to reciprocate this you are trying to do on that very site at the top there already immigration counters on each side so extending the opening in both directions or is possible that behavior also a lot of places in india that are important i see it as the friendship has to be from both sides your friend you know responds positively to our initiative we'll give them an even better response than. money a friend got a yacht from the opposition congress party in india does not share his optimism especially when it comes to a commitment from prime minister. i think he is. he's

against this kind of the thing it doesn't suit his politics and it doesn't suit his . for the support. of things between the 2 countries involved to wants peace then he has one of the candidates for the nobel peace prize as well but what is true is that. iran khan looked so obvious thought he did this i would say. most indian the media has you know has an eye on the nobel peace prize which would be the automatic prize that would be given for. if it did reconciliation between the 2 countries. as a sikh among deep is definitely eager to promote reconciliation between the 2 nation it's only through dialogue that is both interrupted and goes up to boot their view would be able to leave either this illusion of these issues

including christian here. it's clear that the cutoff point corridor has raised hopes for a more harmonious future in both parts of. this muslim life time opportunity for me i'd really hyping i made the decision is that i. think. move.

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