AMRITSAR: The legislative assembly of Pakistan’s Punjab province has already passed a resolution declaring the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev as an official holiday, but no such holiday has ever been observed in the province, including this year.
Nankana Sahib administration has declared November 8 as a local holiday in the tehsil, which is the birthplace of the founder of Sikhism. Nankana Sahib deputy commissioner Ahmer Naik, in a notification on Monday, declared November 8 as local holiday to mark the 553rd birth anniversary of Guru Nanak. On May 28, 2014 , the provincial assembly of Pakistan’s Punjab unanimously passed the resolution moved by a Sikh member of provincial assembly, Ramesh Singh Arora. Arora said, “It is unfortunate that a holiday is only at local level. It should have been across Punjab.”
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