Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (PSGPC)

What it is: The Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (PSGPC) is the body that runs Sikh religious affairs at the gurdwaras of Pakistan, in the way the SGPC does in India. The Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB), the Pakistani state body that holds the Partition-era Sikh and Hindu properties, says the Government of Pakistan formed it, and lists 14 functions: among them running langar, managing donations, repairing and renovating gurdwaras, and giving lodging and medical help to Sikh pilgrims. Wikipedia says its members are appointed by the government, elect its president and general secretary, and that unlike the SGPC it is controlled by the ETPB.

How it began: The Tribune, reporting in May 2006, dated its inception to 15 April 1999 and said the SGPC strongly objected to Lt-Gen Javed Nasir, a former head of Pakistan's ISI, being named its founder-president. Bibi Jagir Kaur, a former SGPC president, stopped Sikh jathas going to Pakistan in protest, arguing that the SGPC alone had the right to maintain the shrines there under the Nehru-Liaquat pact. By 2006 the SGPC had in effect recognised the body by attending a PSGPC meeting in Lahore, the first visit by an SGPC chief to its office since 1999.

Its leaders

• Lt-Gen Javed Nasir, founder-president from 1999.
• Between Nasir and today the sources opened for this page do not give a dated list. Wikipedia records that a former head, Madan Singh, resigned over the committee's lack of autonomy.
• Ramesh Singh Arora, elected Pradhan unanimously for a three-year term, reported on 1 March 2024. Satwant Kaur, a woman member, was elected general secretary in the same vote. Arora was sworn in as a minister in Punjab province on 6 March 2024; Arab News calls him the first Sikh named a minister in Pakistan, and the Tribune describes him as the ambassador of the Kartarpur Corridor.

Its part in this history: Its birth in 1999 was itself a quarrel over who speaks for the shrines of the Panth that lie in Pakistan, and its listed duties include lodging and medical help for visiting pilgrims. After India suspended the Kartarpur Corridor on 7 May 2025 following Operation Sindoor, pilgrims could reach Kartarpur Sahib only by the Attari-Wagah route with a visa, the Tribune reported in November 2025. On 4 November 2025 Pakistan received the first major group of Indian Sikh pilgrims since the May clashes: its High Commission in New Delhi said more than 2,100 visas were granted for the 10-day festival marking the 556th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev Ji, with the central gathering at Nankana Sahib. That report does not mention the PSGPC.

Where it stands: Arora's three-year term, begun in March 2024, runs to about March 2027. The sources opened for this page report no later election.