Cigarette packaging used to pack prasad in Pakistan’s Kartarpur Sahib Gurudwara

Editorial comment

• Realise that, Khalistanis, not leaving a chance to criticise India, do not protest against Pakistan for being so insensitive. Can we say that Khalistanis do not mind such hateful gestures towards Sikhism by jihadi Pakistan ?

New Delhi – A very annoying thing has come to the fore that Kartarpur Gurdwara Darbar Sahib’s prasad was found wrapped in cigarette packaging. A devotee after having opened the Prasad wrapper noticed that on the inside of the wrapper was printed, ‘Gold Street International’ brand of cigarette. Since the consumption of Cigarettes and Tobacco is considered an offence in Sikhism, the members of the Sikh community have been opposing it vehemently.

Cigarette packaging used to pack prasad in Pakistan’s Kartarpur Sahib Gurudwara sparks outrage, committee says work of anti-social elementshttps://t.co/IF5XXw009w

— OpIndia.com (@OpIndia_com) December 18, 2021

The President of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee and BJP leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa has taken to Twitter to condemn the incident. He said that “Sikh sentiments are hurt repetitively in Pakistan. It appears like a conspiracy to hurt the faith and harass minority Sikhs in Pakistan.

Last month only, a Pakistani model had taken pictures, with her ‘bare-head’, at the premises of the Kartarpur Gurdwara Darbar Sahib. The owner of an online clothing store named Mannat in Pakistan had posted multiple pictures of the model’s photoshoot on social media as an advertisement for the clothing brand. That advertisement showing a model with a bare head had hurt the religious sentiments of the Sikh community because covering the head before entering Gurudwara has been a tradition in Sikhism.

Sikh sentiments hurt repetitively in Pak
This time Sangat given Kadah Prashad in Cigarette wrapper pages at Gurdwara Sri Kartarpur Sahib. This smacks of a conspiracy to hurt our faith & harass minority Sikhs in Pak. Earlier, they allowed models to shoot at Gurdwara Sahib premises pic.twitter.com/P1G1RXqs9Q

— Manjinder Singh Sirsa (@mssirsa) December 17, 2021