In November 2019, Indian intelligence reported that they spotted alleged terrorist training camps in the Narowal district where the gurdwara is located.[85] The Pakistan Foreign Office rebutted the Indian media claims as baseless propaganda.[86][87] In 2019, the Pakistani army placed an unexploded bomb on display inside the Kartarpur Sahib Gurudwara premises with an accompanying banner alleging that the Indian Air Force had dropped this bomb during the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war on the gurdwara in an attempt to destroy it.[88]