when india pak line was divided why did our people not ask for sikh religious place it was obvious pak was muslim country as they wished then we sould have asked for it

The short answer is that the 1947 partition was negotiated around province- level borders, population mix, and political control , not around assigning specific religious shrines to one side or the other. Sikh leaders did raise concerns about Punjab and Sikh-majority areas, but they did not get a separate Sikh state or guaranteed control over all major religious places.

Why it happened that way

• Partition was a rushed political settlement. The British were leaving quickly, and the main negotiation was how to divide British India into India and Pakistan.
• Punjab and Bengal were split by population and administration. The boundary was drawn to separate mixed regions, not to sort every religious site.
• Sikhs were not treated as a separate territorial nation. In the partition talks, the central bargaining was mainly between the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League, with Sikh concerns often sidelined.
• Many important Sikh shrines ended up on the Pakistan side by geography. Places like Nankana Sahib and Kartarpur were in areas that became Pakistan because the border cut through historic Punjab.
• At the time, leaders feared that asking for too much could weaken Sikh claims elsewhere. Some Sikh leaders wanted safeguards, special arrangements, or a united Punjab outcome, but they had limited power in the final decision.

Why “obvious” did not become policy

It may seem obvious now that a Muslim-majority Pakistan should have meant a separate Sikh religious zone or a guaranteed shrine belt for Sikhs. But partition was not designed as a clean religious map; it was a compromise under crisis, with mass violence already unfolding and millions being displaced. The result was that religious geography and political geography got split apart.

What Sikhs did get later

• Access arrangements: Over time, special travel and pilgrimage arrangements were created for some shrines.
• Kartarpur Corridor: Since 2019, pilgrims from India have had a direct route to Kartarpur Sahib in Pakistan.
• Continued advocacy: Sikh groups have long pushed for easier access to gurdwaras on the Pakistan side.

Different ways to see it

Some people see this as a historic failure to protect Sikh heritage during partition.

Others argue that the whole process was too chaotic for any community to secure everything it wanted, especially with violence, displacement, and weak bargaining power.

TL;DR

Sikh religious places were not separately “asked for” in a way that could override the larger partition bargain. The border was drawn mainly as a political and demographic settlement, and many Sikh shrines fell on the Pakistan side because Punjab itself was divided.