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In a first, Sikh officer appointed PRO to Punjab governor

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In a first in the country’s history, a Sikh officer has been appointed public relations officer to Punjab Governor Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar.

According to the Punjab governor’s office, Pawan Singh Arora, who was previously working as district information officer, Nankana Sahib, has assumed charge as Sarwar’s PRO.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">For the first in history of Governor House Lahore, First Sikh Public Relations Officer, Pawan Singh Arora, has assumed charge as PRO to Governor Punjab . Previously, He was working as District Information Officer Nankana Sahab</p>— Team Governor Punjab (@TeamSarwar) <a href="https://twitter.com/TeamSarwar/status/1083707230111830016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Arora has also worked as a radio broadcaster and a content writer.

Sikhs form a small community in Pakistan, most of whom live in Punjab, and parts of Sindh and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.


In November last year, Prime Minister Imran Khan laid the foundation stone of the Kartarpur corridor, which connects two Sikh holy sites — Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur in Pakistan and Dera Baba Nanak in India.

Pakistan’s friendly gesture is meant to facilitate the Indian Sikh community to visit the sacred place where Baba Guru Nanak, their spiritual leader, lived for 18 years until his death in 1539.
 
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We need more and more such representatives from the minority community in Pakistan.
 
Muhammad Sarwar is a good man - speak to anyone from the South Asian community in Glasgow and the majority only have good words to say about him. He was popular across the racial and religious divide. I'm glad he's doing well in Pakistani politics.
 
I have read about Sikhs living in Pakistan before and it has always perplexed me. What prompted their ancestors to stay put in Pakistan post partition? Especially in the light of intense animosity between Sikh and Muslim communities during partition. Why would they choose to stay in an Islamic nation where they would have risked their lives immediately post partition? Did these communities have huge ancestral properties and did not want to relinquish those?

I would love some insights from Pakistanis about this.
 
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