At least 8 domes of Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib collapse, India demands urgent rectification

At least eight domes of the newly renovated Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib in Pakistan fell apart due to a thunderstorm, raising questions over the use of poor quality material for the extension of the revered Sikh shrine as India took up the matter with Islamabad and demanded that the damage be urgently "rectified and remedied."

Photos of the collapsed domes and other damage to the shrine due to the inclement weather went viral on social media over the weekend.

In November last year, the two countries threw open a corridor linking Dera Baba Sahib in Gurdaspur in India and Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib in Pakistan, in a historic people-to-people initiative.

Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara is located in Pakistan's Narowal district across the river Ravi, about four kilometres from the Dera Baba Nanak shrine. It is the final resting place of Sikh faith's founder Guru Nanak Dev.

Questions are being raised over the sub-standard material used for extension of the Kartarpur Sahib ahead of the corridor's ...