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AdvertisingSingh said the demand for opening of the Kartarpur Sahib corridor was pending since partition as several holy Sikh shrines (Sri Nankana Sahib, Sri Panja Sahib, Dera Sahib and Kartarpur Sahib) had been left in Pakistan. He said that he himself has many friends there, including the former Pakistan Punjab Chief Minister Parvez Elahi. The SFJ’s claims of the Kartarpur Corridor being a gift of Pakistan also had no takers in Punjab, the Chief Minister added. Even former Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Dr Manmohan Singh had taken up the issue of opening the Kartarpur corridor with Pakistan, he added. Claiming that Pakistan Army General Qamar Javed Bajwa had broken the news of the opening of the Kartarpur Corridor to Navjot Singh Sidhu even before Imran Khan was sworn in as their prime minister, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh Sunday dubbed the whole affair as a “bigger conspiracy” hatched by the Pakistan army..