ISLAMABAD: The Sikh community of India and Pakistan are all set to celebrate Baisakhi popularly known as Vaisakhi festival to be held from 13-16 April at Hassan Abdal and Lahore, respectively, with full religious zeal and enthusiam.
Some 2,500 Sikh yatrees (pilgrims) from India arrived here in Pakistan to fulfil Besaiki rituals according to their traditional style.
For the large farming community of Punjab, Baisakhi Festival marks the time for harvest of rabi crops and they celebrate the day by performing joyful bhangra and gidda dance.
For the Sikh community, Baisakhi Festival has tremendous religious significance as it was on a Baisakhi Day in 1699, that Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh Guru laid the foundation of Panth Khalsa-the Order of the Pure Ones.
During the day people of Sikh faith take out a Baisakhi procession under the leadership of Panj piaras. The procession moves through the major localities of the city amidst the rendition of devotional songs by the participating men, women and children.
Dressed in their distinct folk attire, both men and women express their joy by dancing the Bhangra and Gidda and make the festival more colourful.
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