Why has Pakistan not offered passage to ancient Hindu temple Sharda Peeth?
By: Ravinder Singh Robin
The motion for the opening of Sharda Peeth, an historical Hindu temple, the doorways of which have been shut for Indian Hindus by the Pakistan authorities since partition, has intensified after the opening of the Kartarpur Sahib hall. Sharda Peeth is 10km inside PoK from the LoC and there have already been calls for to provide entry for a pilgrimage to the traditional temple.
Earlier in 2018, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan had assured Indian journalists of the opening of Sharda Peeth after the inauguration of the Kartapur hall however by no means fulfilled his promise.
To maintain the motion alive Save Sharda Committee Kashmir (SSCK) has not solely taken up the difficulty at varied platforms in India however has additionally raised the identical with the United Nations (UN).
Stating that he was one of many affected individuals who had been away from his motherland, president of SSCK Ravinder Pandita stated that their wrestle was for the reopening of Sharda Peeth, which is located within the Neelum district of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.
“It is a divided Kashmir that has kept our most important religious site abandoned for the past 70 years. Our saint Swami Nand Lal was the last to sit on this seat up to 1948,” stated Ravindra Pandita.
Pandita who in latest previous had visited Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, Kartarpur Sahib, stated that he had not solely visited the Sikh shrine to pay obeisance but additionally to see how the Kartarpur hall mannequin works and the way it helps in selling individuals to individuals contact and the way the identical mannequin may very well be replicated for the Sharda Peeth.
He defined that the opening of Sharda Peeth wouldn’t incur any monetary burden on any authorities. “Both the governments have spent an enormous sum of quantity to assemble the Kartarpur hall on either side of the worldwide border however there was no have to assemble any enormous infrastructure in Jammu and Kashmir for the opening of Sharda Peeth hall since there have been already
two bus companies between Poonch to Rawalakot and Srinagar to Muzaffarabad.
“All they have to do is to make amendments in cross LoC permits by allowing Hindu’s to undertake the pilgrimage to Sharda Peeth,” stated he.
The Indian Hindus have been demanding an modification within the LoC allow guidelines to incorporate the annual Sharda pilgrimage which has been denied by the Pakistan authorities. “We have recently also submitted a memorandum with Vellamvelly Muraleedharan, Minister of State for External Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs, and requested him to take up the matter with Pakistan,” knowledgeable Ravindra Pandit, the founder member of Save Sharda Committee Kashmir (SSCK).
Notably, the cross LoC permits are issued to the Jammu and Kashmir residents who’ve divided households throughout the LoC for assembly them or for conducting enterprise and until 1948 the spiritual companies had been carried out in Sharda Peeth however following tribal raids, Swami Nand Lal, who used to handle the shrine, migrated to Kupwara in Jammu and Kashmir.
Pandita stated he had additionally written to the Secretary-General, the United Nations, informing concerning the Sharda Peeth challenge and expressed hope that the day would come quickly when Hindus from India would have the ability to carry out spiritual companies on the Sharda Peeth with none trouble.
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