After 75 years of the Partition, Sikhs in Pakistan will finally have a separate identity for the first time. Complying with the directions of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics has included a column “Sikhs” in the population census forms published in Urdu.
A large number of people from the Sikh community in New Delhi staged a protest on Tuesday over the act of sealing Gurudwara Shaheed Bhai Taru situated at Naulakha in Lahore in Pakistan.
Notably, a Muslim Mir Moonu had murdered Bhai Taru Singh in 1745. During the Sikh era, a Samadhi of Bhai Taru Singh was constructed which was close to the Darbar of Shah Kaku Chisti
The Lahore district administration has refused to intervene in a dispute between the Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) and the Singh Sabha over the arbitrary locking of the historic Taru Sahib Gurdwara located in the Shaheed Ganj, Naulokha locality in Lahore.