TAXILA, Nov 8: Sikh yatrees who are currently visiting Pakistan have called upon the Pakistan government to issue flexible visa to the yatrees who intend to visit Pakistan.

Due to visa restrictions they can not visit their native places especially their birth place from where they moved to India after the partition.

Talking to Dawn at Gurdwara Punja Sahib, Hassanabdal, the Sikh pilgrims now in Pakistan in connection with the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak said that they should be at least allowed to see the place, house, school and street where they had spent their childhood before the partition.

They said that many Sikhs were issued visa to visit Pakistan once in their life time, but even then they were not allowed to see their birth place.

Sardar Muhendar Singh Opera a senior citizen who was born at Chakwal and studied till matriculation at Khalsa High School, Chakwal, has said that he pleased to see the development happened at the various Gurdwaras of Pakistan especially Nankana Sahib. He said that when the yatrees especially senior citizens should be allowed to visit their places of birth and house where they had born and were brought up.