About 

• The Kartarpur Corridor, also known as the corridor of ‘international peace and harmony’,  is a 4.2-km-long passage which facilitates travel of Indian Sikh pilgrims to the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur, Pakistan.
• The Kartarpur Corridor was first proposed in early 1999 by Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Nawaz Sharif, the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan respectively.
• The corridor was inaugurated in 2019 to commemorate the 550th birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Nanak Dev.
• The gurdwara is located on the right bank of the Ravi River.
• It is in Kartarpur Sahib that Guru Nanak Dev had spent the last 18 years of his life. The gurdwara is built where Guru Nanak is said to have died.

About Guru Nanak (1469–1539)

• Founder of Sikhism and is the first of the ten Sikh Gurus.
• He advocated a form of nirguna bhakti (devotion to and worship of the Divine as formless). 
• He rejected the external practices of the religions he saw around him. He rejected sacrifices, ritual baths, image worship, austerities and the scriptures of both Hindus and Muslims.
• Nanak’s teachings can be found in the Sikh scripture Guru Granth Sahib.

Why in News?

• The Agreement on Sri Kartarpur Sahib Corridor signed on 24 October 2019 was valid for a period of five years (2019 to 2024). 
• Now, India and Pakistan agreed to extend the validity of the Agreement on Sri Kartarpur Sahib Corridor for a further period of five years until 2029.