Pakistan ignores India's ill will, signs Sikh visa-free corridor deal.

NAROWAL -- Despite a chill in bilateral ties, Pakistan and India on Thursday signed the landmark Kartarpur Corridor agreement, allowing Sikh pilgrims visa-free access to Darbar Sahib, where the founder of Sikhism Guru Nanak Dev spent last 18 years of his life.

The corridor will connect the Dera Baba Nanak shrine in India's Punjab with Darbar Sahib at Kartarpur, just four kilometres from the international border, in Narowal district.

Signed by Director General South Asia and SAARC Dr Mohammad Faisal at the Kartarpur zero line, the corridor will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Imran Khan on Nov 9, ahead of the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev on Nov 12.

The Indian side was represented by its Joint Secretary for Home Affairs S.C.L. Das.

Talking to the media after the signing ceremony, Dr Faisal said pilgrims would be facilitated seven days a week from dawn till dusk.

Corridor will connect Dera Baba Nanak shrine in India's Punjab with Darbar Sahib at Kartarpur in Narowal district

'Under the agreement, India will provide a list of pilgrims 10 days before their visits so that they could be properly received,' Dr Faisal said, adding the first group using the corridor will arrive at the pilgrimage site on Nov 9.

The FO official said five thousand pilgrims would visit the site daily and 'and if there is more capacity we will accommodate them too'.

'Roads and a reception centre have been built in the area. A huge gurdwara has been...