Place In News: Kartarpur

• Pakistan has decided to allow fully vaccinated Sikh pilgrims to visit Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, Kartarpur with strict COVID-19 protocols.

Kartarpur Corridor

• It connects the Darbar Sahib Gurdwara in Narowal district of Pakistan with the Dera Baba Nanak shrine in Gurdaspur district in India’s Punjab province.
• The corridor was built to commemorate 550th birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Nanak Dev. 
• Location: The gurdwara in Kartarpur is located on the bank of river Ravi in Pakistan. It is about four km from the Dera Baba Nanak shrine, and about 120 km northeast of Lahore. 
• It was here that Guru Nanak assembled a Sikh community and lived for 18 years until his death in 1539.
• The Kartarpur shrine has one of the last copies of the original Guru Granth Sahib.

It is believed that the Guru Granth Sahib contains not only the wisdom of the 10 Gurus but is itself the 11th and last Guru.