India and Pakistan held a technical meeting to discuss modalities for the corridor, linking this historic border town with Kartarpur Sahib, the last resting place of Guru Nanak Dev ji, founder of the Sikh faith, whose 550th birth anniversary will be celebrated worldwide in November.The technical experts, including surveyors from both sides, participated in the meeting held at the zero line dividing the two neighbours.

The Indian side comprised of the Land Ports Authority of India (LPAI), the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) and engineers of the Punjab PWD and Drainage Department as well as officials of the Border Security Force (BSF). The Pakistan side consisted of technical experts as well as officers of their border guards, that is the Pakistan Rangers. A similar meeting was held at the same spot on March 19 and the meeting on Tuesday was a follow-up of that meeting. Senior officers of the foreign offices of the two sides as well as internal security officials had met at the Attari-Wagah Integrated Check Post (ICP) early in March to discuss the ways and means of going ahead with the pilgrims corridor and the technical meetings are a follow up of this very meeting.

The Indian side at today’s meeting was led by Aklesh Saxena, a senior official of the LPAI. Senior officials, on return, did not divulge any details except that the installation of barbed wire along the corridor was taken up for discussions. The two sides also reviewed the onging construction work on the corridor on both sides of the zero line. Earlier the senior officials of the two nations were to hold their second meeting at Wagah (on Pakistan side) on April 2 but India refused to send its delegation to this meeting to protest against the presence of Khalistani elements on the committee on the Kartarpur Sahib Corridor.

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