evidence: Home minister Amit Shah inaugurated the Maa Sharda temple through video conferencing and assured to work for the opening of pilgrimage to Sharda Peeth in PoK on the pattern of Kartarpur Corridor in Punjab, while local sarpanch Abdul Rashid Khokar threw it open for the public by opening its gate. [...] Home minister Amit Shah inaugurated the temple through video conferencing and assured to work for the opening of pilgrimage to Sharda Peeth in PoK on the pattern of Kartarpur Corridor in Punjab, while local sarpanch Abdul Rashid Khokar threw it open for the public by opening its gate. [...] The ruins of Sharda Peeth lie across the LoC in Neelam Valley, some 56 km from Teetwal in Kupwara or 160 km from Muzaffarabad, the capital of PoK. The temple became out of bounds for people on this side after the Partition. In earlier centuries, the temple was also a seat of learning, a grand university.