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the UK and Canada. down on the Indian side; two days later, on November 28,
The corridor was inaugurated on either side of the border 2018, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan did the same on
by the Indian and Pakistani prime ministers. It was a year ago the Pakistani side. The corridor was completed for the 550th
that Pakistan indicated its willingness to open the corridor birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev on November 12, 2019.
that had been long under discussion between New Delhi and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi compared the deci-
Islamabad. The two sides first discussed the corridor in 1998, sion to go ahead with the corridor by the two countries to the
and then again in 2004 and 2008, but these talks failed to fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, saying that the pro-
deliver. ject may help in easing tensions between the two countries.
On November 26, 2018, the foundation stone was laid On his part, Imran Khan said, “Pakistan believes that the

• Unity they seek Sikhism was
born in Punjab, a region that
was split during the partition