Most Sikhs live in the province of Punjab, a part of the larger Punjab region where the religion originated in the middle ages, and Peshawar in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. Nankana Sahib, the birthplace of Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the founder of Sikhism, is located in the Punjab province.
Pakistan, especially Punjab is exclusively blessed as the homeland of Gurus and Pirs and also proud to claim as founding place of Sikh religion. Sikh heritage in Pakistan is one of the major pillar of the heritage of Pakistan.
After Mughal’s downfall in Indian sub-continent the Sikhs took over India and ruled here for about more than five decades and during their era there were lot of new additions into the Indian history. Some of these landmark additions are quite visible if we concentrate a little on it. These Sikh landmarks are asset to promote Sikh pilgrimage to Pakistan. There are endless monuments, Havelis, forts and Gurdwaras which are now part of the major landmarks of Pakistan.
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