Almost the entire Sikh population of west Punjab left in 1947. The Sikh community in Pakistan today is small, generally estimated in the low tens of thousands, and a large part of it is from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region and the tribal areas rather than from Punjab.
Many of those families came from Tirah and Orakzai and moved to Punjab after 2009 when the security situation in the tribal areas deteriorated. They are Pashto-speaking Sikhs.
The Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee was formed in 1999 to manage the shrines under the Evacuee Trust Property Board.
The Sikh Marriage Act was passed in Pakistani Punjab in 2018, giving Sikh marriages legal registration for the first time.
The community is at Nankana Sahib, Lahore, Peshawar and Hasan Abdal, and it maintains the sites that hundreds of thousands of Indian Sikhs would visit if they could.
Nankana Sahib is the destination of the largest annual pilgrimage from India, arranged under a protocol on religious visits agreed in 1974.
The Kartarpur Corridor opened in November 2019, a visa free crossing from Dera Baba Nanak to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur where Guru Nanak Dev Ji spent his last years, with a bridge over the Ravi and a terminal on each side. It is the only crossing of its kind on that border.
Punjabi in Pakistan is written in Shahmukhi and Gurmukhi is taught in no school there, so a Sikh child learns the script the scripture is in separately or does not learn it. The community runs its own classes where it can and the classes depend on whoever is willing to take them.