Some 2,000 Sikhs travelled to Pakistan from neighbouring India despite recent tensions between the two nuclear-armed rivals.

Indian Sikh pilgrims arrive at Wagah Railway Station at Pakistan's Wagah border on April 12, 2019, to celebrate Baisakhi (Sikh New Year).
Indian Sikh pilgrims arrive at Wagah Railway Station at Pakistan's Wagah border on April 12, 2019, to celebrate Baisakhi (Sikh New Year). (AFP)

Thousands of Sikh pilgrims from across the world gathered at a shrine in Pakistan to celebrate the Vaisakhi harvest festival amid heightened security.

Some 2,000 Sikhs travelled to Pakistan from neighbouring India despite recent tensions between the two nuclear-armed rivals. 

Sikhs are a small minority in Muslim-majority Pakistan, but many Sikh holy sites ended up in the country after the 1947 partition from India following independence from Britain.

TRT World's Kamran Yusuf reports.

Source: TRTWorld and agencies