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US Advocacy Group urges Pakistan to reopen Khokhrapar crossing

US-based advocacy group urges PM Imran Khan to reopen Khokhrapar crossing with India.
US-based advocacy group urges PM Imran Khan to reopen Khokhrapar crossing with India.

The opening of the Khokhrapar crossing would facilitate millions of followers of to visit Ajmer Sharif Dargah Situated in Rajasthan, India

A US-based advocacy group has urged Prime Minister Imran Khan to reopen the Khokhrapar-Munabao border with India for millions of Hindu and Muslim devotees. Earlier in November, Prime Minister Khan and Prime Minister Narendra Modi conclude a deal on the opening of the Kartarpur Corridor for Sikh pilgrims. Importantly, the advocacy group congratulates PM Khan for showing “admirable magnanimity.”

The opening of the Khokhrapar border would facilitate millions of followers of Saint Moinuddin Chishti to visit Dargah Ajmer Sharif Situated on Indian side in Rajasthan. Along with this, it will also allow Hindu pilgrims to visit the Hinglaj Mandir which lies in the Balochistan province of Pakistan.

Significantly, the group represents Urdu-speaking Indian Muslims Known as Mohajirs. Post-partition, they got settled in Pakistan. Their website mentions that they are “committed to raise global awareness about the plight of the Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi”.

The group’s Nadeem Nusrat wrote a letter to Pakistan’s Prime Minister Khan saying, “government has shown admirable magnanimity by opening the Kartarpur crossing making it convenient for Sikh pilgrims to visit their sacred places in Pakistan”.

Furthermore, he “requests” PM Khan “on behalf of millions of Muslim and Hindu followers of Saint Moinuddin Chishti and Hinglaj Devi respectively. He urged him “to show similar generosity by opening Khokhrapar-Munabao border with immediate effect.”

Moreover, Nusrat mentioned that Pakistan’s favourable response will not only win “millions of hearts”, “but it will also help” boost “people-to-people contact in the region”.

Above all, he mentioned about the problems faced by millions of Muslims and Hindus living in Pakistan and India in visiting the two places of worship since 1947. He hoped that bot the issues will be “resolved with the same level of kindness you have demonstrated in the Kartarpur crossing issue.”