Hundreds of Indian Sikhs began a historic pilgrimage to
Pakistan on Saturday, crossing through a white gate to reach one of their religion's holiest sites under a landmark deal between the two countries separated by the 1947 partition of the subcontinent.
Among the first pilgrims to cross over into Pakistan's Punjab province from the town of Dera Baba Nanak in
India was former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who told Pakistani state media that it was a "big moment".
Buses were waiting on the Pakistani side to carry the pilgrims to the shrine to Sikhism's founder Guru Nanak, which lies in Kartarpur, a small town just four kilometres (2.5 miles) inside Pakistan where he is believed to have died.