<p>A nondescript village in Punjab’s border Tarn Taran district is getting a facelift to welcome its VIP visitor this Sunday. <br /><br /></p>.<p>Pakistan Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif, the younger brother of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, is scheduled to visit Jatti Umra, the ancestral village of the Sharif<br /> family.<br /><br />Shahbaz Sharif, who arrived in New Delhi on Thursday and met top leaders, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, will arrive in Punjab on Friday evening. <br /><br />He will be the highest ranked Pakistani leader and Sharif family member to visit the family’s ancestral village, located about 50 kilometres from the India-Pakistan international border.<br /><br />The village, comprising mostly Sikh families now, celebrated the election of Nawaz Sharif as Pakistan’s prime minister in May this year by distributing sweets and dancing bhangra to dhol beats.<br /><br />The Sharif family migrated from Jatti Umra before the Partition of India and creation of Pakistan in August 1947.<br /><br />Punjab’s Revenue Minister Bikram Singh Majithia, who is supervising arrangements for Shahbaz Sharif’s visit to the village, said the visit will help better ties between both countries.<br /><br />“The visit will help bring east and west Punjab and their people closer. Both Punjabs can benefit from trade,” Majithia said.<br /><br />Shahbaz Sharif will arrive in Chandigarh on Friday evening. Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal will host a dinner for him in Mohali town the same evening.<br /><br />On Saturday, he will visit Punjab Agricultural University in -Ludhiana. He will also address a joint press conference with Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal. The same evening, he will be chief guest at the World Kabaddi Cup (WKC) in Ludhiana.<br /><br />On Sunday, Sharif will visit the Talwandi Sabo thermal power plant in Bathinda district. He will round up his trip with a visit to Jatti Umra and by offering prayers at holiest of Sikh shrines Harmandir Sahib, popularly known as the Golden Temple, in Amritsar.<br /></p>
<p>A nondescript village in Punjab’s border Tarn Taran district is getting a facelift to welcome its VIP visitor this Sunday. <br /><br /></p>.<p>Pakistan Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif, the younger brother of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, is scheduled to visit Jatti Umra, the ancestral village of the Sharif<br /> family.<br /><br />Shahbaz Sharif, who arrived in New Delhi on Thursday and met top leaders, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, will arrive in Punjab on Friday evening. <br /><br />He will be the highest ranked Pakistani leader and Sharif family member to visit the family’s ancestral village, located about 50 kilometres from the India-Pakistan international border.<br /><br />The village, comprising mostly Sikh families now, celebrated the election of Nawaz Sharif as Pakistan’s prime minister in May this year by distributing sweets and dancing bhangra to dhol beats.<br /><br />The Sharif family migrated from Jatti Umra before the Partition of India and creation of Pakistan in August 1947.<br /><br />Punjab’s Revenue Minister Bikram Singh Majithia, who is supervising arrangements for Shahbaz Sharif’s visit to the village, said the visit will help better ties between both countries.<br /><br />“The visit will help bring east and west Punjab and their people closer. Both Punjabs can benefit from trade,” Majithia said.<br /><br />Shahbaz Sharif will arrive in Chandigarh on Friday evening. Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal will host a dinner for him in Mohali town the same evening.<br /><br />On Saturday, he will visit Punjab Agricultural University in -Ludhiana. He will also address a joint press conference with Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal. The same evening, he will be chief guest at the World Kabaddi Cup (WKC) in Ludhiana.<br /><br />On Sunday, Sharif will visit the Talwandi Sabo thermal power plant in Bathinda district. He will round up his trip with a visit to Jatti Umra and by offering prayers at holiest of Sikh shrines Harmandir Sahib, popularly known as the Golden Temple, in Amritsar.<br /></p>