Indian, Pak girls maintain interactions at Kartarpur hall
Ravi Dhaliwal
Batala, February 22
“We journey to not escape life, however for all times to not escape us.” This was the motto of a gaggle of 150 girls, aligned to the Interior Wheel Membership (IWC)-District 307, as they travelled to the hallowed Sikh shrine at Kartarpur Sahib, throughout the worldwide border, to maintain a date with their counterparts from Pakistan.
The ladies belonged to Punjab and J&Okay whereas the Pakistani girls, who had been part of the IWC-Districts 327 and 342, hailed primarily from Islamabad and Quetta.
Whereas the Indian delegation was led by IWC-307 Chairman Dr Satinder Kaur Nijjar, the Pakistanis had been led by Zara Dass and Sadaf Sajeel.
Dr Nijjar was the fulcrum round which the proceedings revolved. She was instrumental in conceptualising and planning your complete tour. The Indians introduced their visitors with 250 studying glasses. Conventional Phulkaris had been additionally handed over to every member of the Pakistan troupe.
“We had been planning this tour for the previous a number of months and had been in contact with the Pakistanis via social media websites. In a world of digital interplay, notably in a pandemic-hit world, in-person conferences are uncommon. Pandemic or no pandemic, for Pakistanis and Indians to satisfy with one another is even rarer. We’re joyful that we had been a part of this assembly. We bought to know extra about their tradition. Really, I all the time questioned why birds keep in the identical place once they can fly wherever on earth. Then I requested myself the identical query. After which it occurred to me and my Interior Wheel colleagues why not invite girls from Pakistan to Kartarpur Sahib,” mentioned Dr Nijjar.
She added that it was certainly surreal to see the familiarity that had developed after staying for simply a few hours on the shrine. “This mirrored in how the individuals greeted one another,” mentioned Mona Suri, District Secretary of IWC-307.
Suri added, “By organising this tour, I feel we’ve got performed our bit to enhance the friendship between the 2 international locations. You neither select the day you enter the world nor do you select the day you permit. It’s what you do in between that makes all of the distinction. We on the IWC needed to make a giant distinction and that’s the reason we’re planning extra such excursions sooner or later.”
“As soon as my colleagues and I made a decision that the present should go on, there was no wanting again,” mentioned Dr Nijjar.