{"id":301479,"date":"2018-08-17T14:29:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T14:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301479"},"modified":"2018-08-17T14:32:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T14:32:08","slug":"navjot-singh-sidhu-arrives-in-pakistan-for-imran-khans-oath-taking-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/navjot-singh-sidhu-arrives-in-pakistan-for-imran-khans-oath-taking-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Navjot Singh Sidhu arrives in Pakistan for Imran Khan&#8217;s oath taking ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301480 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/NSsidhu-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/NSsidhu-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/NSsidhu.jpg 595w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/>Former Indian cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu on Friday arrived in Lahore, Pakistan to take part in the oath-taking ceremony of Imran Khan as Prime Minister.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He arrived in Lahore via the Wagah border and would travel to Islamabad to attend Khan&#8217;s swearing-in ceremony which will be held on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sidhu used his poetic expression while interacting with reporters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He said, \u201cI have come as a friend, not a politician and have come to take part in my friend\u2019s (Imran) oath\u2019s ceremony\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He was among the first cricketers from India to congratulate Imran Khan after his victory in Pakistan elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Indian cricketers Sunil Gavaskar and Kapil Dev, who were invited for oath-taking ceremony, declined the invitation citing personal engagements.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Indian cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu on Friday arrived in Lahore, Pakistan to take part in the oath-taking ceremony of Imran Khan as Prime Minister. He arrived in Lahore via the Wagah border and would travel to Islamabad to attend Khan&#8217;s swearing-in ceremony which will be held on Saturday. Sidhu used his poetic expression while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[3867,845,1516,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301479"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301483,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301479\/revisions\/301483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}