PAK SUGGESTED DIFFERENT CROSSING POINT, SAYS INDIA

NEW DELHI: Pakistan has proposed a border crossing point, different to what India suggested for the Kartarpur corridor, the ministry of external affairs (MEA) said on Thursday.

A meeting on the corridor will take place on March 14, MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said. The meeting was to earlier take place on March 13.

Kumar said India has also proposed a technical level discussion of engineers, but Pakistan is yet to respond to it.

“We still await response from the Pakistani side on this. We thought it would be in interest of early establishment of requisite infrastructure and finalisation of the alignment of the corridor,” he said. Last month, India shared with Pakistan the coordinates of the crossing point of the proposed Kartarpur corridor, which will link Baba Nanak village in Punjab to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Narowal in Pakistan.

Pakistan had said it shared a draft agreement on the Kartarpur Corridor with India and invited New Delhi to urgently send a delegation to Islamabad to negotiate and finalise the proposal.

Both sides are yet to finalise the modalities of travel of the Indian pilgrims to the Gurudwara.