Pakistan has offered to set up an educational institution of international standard in the name of the first Sikh guru Guru Nanak Dev.
University to be named after the first Sikh Guru Nankana Sahib.
Pakistan, which about a decade and a half ago had reportedly fostered militancy in Punjab, has offered to set up an educational institution of international standard in the name of the first Sikh guru Guru Nanak Dev.
In a move which could diplomatically win the Sikhs to its side, Pakistan has announced its intention to set up Baba Guru Nanak Dev International University at Nankana Sahib, the birth place of the guru in Pakistan’s Punjab province.
A delegation of the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandak Committee led by its president Avtar Singh Makkar, visited Lahore last week to work out a blueprint for the proposed university. Makkar submitted a list of about a dozen prominent Sikhs from Punjab who would be part of the team to work on the project. The SGPC delegation held a meeting with the Pakistan minister for minorities and suggested that the study centre of the Pakistan University be established at Fatehgarh Sahib in Punjab where the Guru Granth Sahib University was proposed to be set up.
The proposal for the Guru Nanak Dev International University was initially made by Pakistan PM Shaukat Ali last year when the 400th martyrdom anniversary of Guru Arjan Dev was observed in Pakistan. The PM had announced liberal visas for students from India’s Punjab to study in the proposed university.
Spread over an area of over 2,500 acres attached to the historic Nankana Sahib gurdwara, the university will focus research on the preaching of Guru Nanak Dev, who in Pakistan, is recognised as a “baba”. SGPC spokesperson, Diljit Singh Bedi said the SGPC president had put forward his set of suggestions. He has asked for a research centre to be set up within the university premises, where extensive and authentic studies will be carried out on the life of Guru Nanak Dev.
“The University may also introduce studies on the life of Guru Nanak as a separate course,” Bedi said.
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