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On 9 November 2019, India and Pakistan opened the Kartarpur Corridor, a roughly four kilometer visa free passage linking the Dera Baba Nanak shrine in India's Punjab state to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur, Pakistan, where Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, spent his final years and died in 1539.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the corridor's Indian side and Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan inaugurated its Pakistani side on the same day, opening the first route for pilgrims to cross between the two shrines since the 1947 partition of British India.
Under the agreement, up to five thousand Indian devotees a day could cross without a visa, and 562 pilgrims made the crossing on the opening day, ahead of Guru Nanak's five hundred fiftieth birth anniversary on 12 November. United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres later visited the corridor and described it as a Corridor of Hope.
What the opening changed for Sikh pilgrims was restoring direct access to the site of Guru Nanak's death after more than seven decades in which the 1947 partition had kept the two shrines apart, timed to place the corridor's first pilgrims on the ground just days ahead of the anniversary the corridor's own opening was built to mark.