India has proposed July 11-14 to Pakistan as dates for a meeting of officials on the Pakistani side of the Attari-Wagah border to finalise modalities to open the Kartarpur corridor for the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak in November, people familiar with developments said on Saturday. The first meeting of officials of the two sides on modalities for the corridor, which will link Dera Baba Nanak in Indian Punjab with Gurdwara Darbar Sahib at Kartarpur in Pakistan, was held at Attari on March 14. India called off the second meeting, which was to be held on the Pakistani side on April 2, over the inclusion of pro-Khalistan activists such as Gopal Chawla and Bisan Singh in a Pakistani committee to facilitate Sikh pilgrims. However, the people made it clear that the move by India on the Kartarpur corridor should not in any way be linked to the resumption of engagement between the two sides. India has clearly linked any possible bilateral talks to the ending of terrorism from Pakistani soil, they said.

Source: Hindustan Times June 29, 2019 15:45 UTC