depicts traumatic humanitarian crises around the world. fucking thing we don't have time to think i didn't go to university to kill people who don't know. that any a handful of people feel for their lives and their future so they seek refuge abroad but what will become of close to stay behind. displaced as we go on d w. relations between india and pakistan are a somewhat in tangled affair rather like at 1st glance the turban gone by sikh men . among piecing is curious to know what happens when an indian sikh like himself travel to pakistan. he's decided to embark on a pilgrimage and for the 1st time in his life crossed the border to be the new photographer corridor. i'd love to

have a blog. so here's the thing my little place he did like a muslim it is the back up. for a monday the journey is also a sentimental one visiting the homeland of his ancestors into 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. put is very very. stress it all very very very important to them don't forget that it is probably the sikhs who suffered the most at partition the sikhs who lost the most at partition. the sikhs also who retaliated the most at partition. how did the tiny

minority of seats become such an important political issue for the 2 powerful nation. will cut off or change anything for the seats. could it be a testing ground for peace between india and pakistan more than 70 years after their partition. actually travel through india and pakistan when john we come across new hopes and fears. below. the new border crossing is located just a few hours drive south of kashmir the region india and pakistan have botched 2 wars over since their foundations and where they remain on a hostile footing with each other. but here on the ground in one job at the entrance to the car talk or corridor the mood is currently a peaceful even relaxed one. of. 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 but talking. a monday makes its final preparations for a journey that he expects will change as we're. up the top of the body double. it's and if he does definitely be seen hasina lot of the world he spent a number of years and birmingham and washed and it's also traveled extensively across india and to the by but this is his 1st trip on the politically conscious cold for this purchase the dentist as transform to small car into a kind of ambassadors he's joint on this expedition should are unfamiliar of larger

neighbor fi as wife of i'm an deep conducts one last one line check the for setting off a video on the cot top or sahib car dog the card talk corridor are 4 kilometers of freshly paved the road for indian seeks a new highway to a holy site that these 2 park taught of course psaki pin pakistan to world's largest seats temple it's where the founder of their religion nona spent the last years of his life in a 16th century and as now barents it's a place that every seek wants to visit once in our life the 1st group of pilgrim said up for her thought force also known as dot a bought a psaki and november 29th teen but date on which record or was inaugurated was no coincident november night the anniversary of the paulus of or lynn walk it was

opened on the indian side by prime minister not n. but i'm owed hand almost at the same time but not in a same place biased pakistani counterpart team and on fatah says it had bent almost 20 years since plan is for such a horde or live 1st the hodes clyde then indian premier a kagi hadi much tight and it's in that spirit of peace that i monday and are now making their trip. they were both born in punjab not far from where they now live and would be on there making the trip on behalf of their respective families and are among the 1st to have been granted permission to go to kentucky and. i'm excited i am. living the moment i saw many video of the many

big jazz many people going across but. that place will be a feeling physically and money to. one individual and i do think that it didn't think many and windows into. 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 18 of the 20000000 infant seats. as well as on monday can keep up with programs from within pakistan are also underway. on sikh holidays believers are required to visit a temple for. ideally one of the especially holy places like one kind of sucky birthplace of the religions founder buddha none of. them are the.

one kind of sucky plies a good 3 hour drive away from kentucky this is where it will be interesting lives and works. man. i'm going along with the 1st secretly who migrated here after 947. my grandfather and his 2 brothers are the 1st ones to come of it all. families had moved from here to india during the partition 947 that it partitioned into. and at that time it was difficult for with pakistan you 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 your indian saying brothers on the other side they would look at the ground 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 singh to the pakistani punjab to one kind of psyche where a sense of tradition it's a more future oriented album as typified by saying the tools of his trade are laptop and camera he's a you tube video grapher with a very specific target audience. being the team behind the punch on the letter yet tube channel are trying to increase their love between pakistan and india because they have so much in common . we don't understand the reasons for the hate between the 2 nations. and. the temple of one kind of sucky he sings favorite filming location his videos provide an insight into the secret religious service on feast days the ceremonial reader or granting 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 a powerful look. women have equal rights in the sikh religion and there is no caste system as a hindu as the belief in one god and one book of faith is a concept also familiar to muslims while him to recognize the notion of groups have been a sacred trees. good or not adopted a range of ideas from the great religions he was surrounded by but also added his op 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 offer free food and drink to visitors regardless of their religious affiliation those who work hard are eager to share tend to make friends this is perhaps another reason for the growing social presence of sikhs in pakistan . but behavior is all the richfield i thought over the last 20 years we sikhs gradually started to become 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 range of images i don't 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 where a modest mall ost minorities in the country. of. the temple next door has been

draped in a special show of lights to celebrate good or not birthday. here we meet one of the biggest relatives was also enjoyed professional success. by hendon policy. he's a proud member of the provincial assembly punjab. stunned the met 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 oddly beginning. religion is said was i'm so proud of that. for my hand at the cut out for corridor 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 by a sikhs. in the islamic republic of pakistan well it just tolerance is

far from a given in. my head there looks to the good example set by his fellow believers. the artistic known sikhs from all over the world our kind of ambassador is for pakistan to me and when they see the love and respect they receive from us 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. will not 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 for 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 there by attaches to reconciling at least 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 the sikhs also who retaliated there was a 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 c.

culture and indian punjab. among deep in 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 bear witness to the victims and give visitors a very physical and emotional impression of a suffering. 40 percent of the population you know operative completely on board the side. people lost their lives there are names. used it's been 70 years it was up not he. 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.

british wanted to rule here so it was their policy to do why divide us it is one of the you know blackest step in the colonial rule. you know you know we need people with the why. 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 the radcliffe line named after the british chairman of the boundary committee was drawn in an arbitrary manner with dramatic consequences the independence at that time was like a disease in punjab it was like a like a plague immediately we started losing people. that the said government whenever independence day i pleased to being up and. you know i cannot relate myself to the fairly brief and because i cannot ignore this i cannot ignore does nothing. to

enforce the population transfers in the provinces of punjab and then got more 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 if we should try to do something so that not think that it will happen again. on monday it was 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. for a visit to the museum provides an alternative perspective of the present water what about the ground into their daily war and then that it is on the history from their point of view i read the history but everything but venom coming to

a museum in this age i'm watching many new things and that's that ever a generation should be told about the mistakes. at the earliest age to in the partition music her the thorny tree representing relations between india and pakistan has leith sparing friendly wishes me to but cuter miss also experience to less promising state of affairs court history it's being changed i am a teacher and each oh courses and the syllabus is at been changed do you especially history books by to placing chapters in them to just to 10 minute walk away from the sobering partition museum is a truly resplendent site and one intimately connected to the history of the seeks the golden temple of ahmed it side there holiest site and indian soil they dates

from the 16th and 17th century us i in modern times it was the sight of a traumatic event but spent edged into the memory it seeks all new thought that i'll to you david yeah $9094.00 there was a massacre on genocide up with a killing of an entire generation of seek sin dahlia after that even to face today we were advised not to talk about to move forward to move on be the see a get your little in 1084 seeks wanted to create their own state of a college stun independent of india with i'm but it's out as its capital a fearing further independents movements at the van indian prime minister indira gandhi order the army to storm the temple to dislodge seek extremists would been using it as a refuge around $500.00 seeks died in the ensuing gunfire

a few weeks later indeed a gandhi was murdered by to a sikh body guards anti seek paul graham's broke out and hundreds of innocent civilians were kill those responsible are eventually satins over 30 years after the crowd we used to look at the ruins last year by the massacre and think did this actually happen in an independent and free india or we're not part of india and a look why did it have to come to that later on we gradually tried to take a more information but we did not find any answers. for sikhs the golden temple a 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 india been in india and on the congress party and on that as you got the government programs despite apologies that have been demanded subsequent you can be

difficult for the new store here to see this steve has been wiped out. after taking some valuable history lessons on board for the journey to potentially brighter future a monday now has become and finds time to. never comes easy it never does not matter how much effort you board how much time do you know you can demand 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 or step between board the nation then thought about it jim. this part of the indian punjab has benefited from recent developments the equivalent of several 1000000 euros were invested in building a few kilometers of new roads across the sandy plain and the approach to the top of 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 games as the much awaited destination. for some heat now just 2 passport checkpoints away. it was a monday and keep it out have almost reached the final goal visitor numbers are limited to 5000 a day now a few weeks after the opening the initial rush has subsided. and filming is not officially permitted beyond the gates but the indian authorities have provided an online computer animation of its passenger terminal. the 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. i think i 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 me i'm about to get on it and i'll go to

the top or psyche i've a lot of mixed emotions right now. thank. you know it would have been a time generation has prayed to make it very easy for us to be here today is the whole we have to do is get out of foam at the border and officials from both countries welcome don. and now i would like to thank all of those who made this possible for us that are not you know me it's our de lay eggs the bubble but i know . this is was going to end up hitting another side of it that snooty. blow us up here shortly and saying with the save the daughter of. the. day. finally the pilgrims dream becomes reality.

followed by the wild but i do. unfortunately film cameras are not allowed inside the complex but q thoughts photos and i'm a personal account do give us an impression of how. well preserved the historical interiors 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 i used to be you would be treated for out but everyone here is really passionate and full of life like you're getting. strangers come up to say hello to you and octavia they tell us about their own village and they ask us about ours even. encounters with an impact lasting longer than the one

day visit and we all have to be stakeholders in as we have to put more effort into this initiative this project needs to for violin we need more initiatives to be taken to the digital age. cutoff for seche is open to visitors for just 8 hours a day indian citizens are not allowed to visit other temples of pakistani soil so the scenes are now at the end of the program. back to india for how many expand they are waiting in their village for a full report on this journey. let me give. you david one thing i was no one there was trying to take a credit or saying they want to hire the initiative all of them said are saying the thing that i say is good or not. it is your right to come here. on

everyone. no one who said otherwise. i'm excited and looking forward to telling everyone about my experience and encouraging them to go to know what they are simply. well wary when they hear going on but i would have to read them to go and experience it. up until now the cult 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 3. we need to reciprocate this is trying to do on that very subject at the top there already immigration counters on each side so extending the opening both directions or is possible that there are also a lot of places in india to see. 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 yard 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. i think he's against this kind of the thing it doesn't suit his party and it doesn't suit his the. 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 not so obvious thought he did this and i would say. most indians he does has an eye on the nobel peace prize which would be the automatic prize that would be given for if it did a consideration between the 2 countries. as a sikh among deep as definitely eager to promote reconciliation between the 2 nation it's only through guy though that is both interrupted and goes up to

boot that we wouldn't be able to write i do this with them of these issues including krishna. it's clear that the top 4 corridor. for a more harmonious future in both parts. and this was a lifetime opportunity for me and i'm really happy i made the decision that i live .

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