{"id":303131,"date":"2018-09-24T04:37:37","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T04:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303131"},"modified":"2018-09-24T15:08:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T15:08:20","slug":"kartarpur-corridor-row-punjab-cm-capt-amarinder-singh-urges-centre-for-quick-resolution-with-pak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/kartarpur-corridor-row-punjab-cm-capt-amarinder-singh-urges-centre-for-quick-resolution-with-pak\/","title":{"rendered":"Kartarpur corridor row: Punjab CM Capt Amarinder Singh urges Centre for quick resolution with Pak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301740 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/amarinder-300x254.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"508\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/amarinder-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/amarinder-495x420.jpg 495w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/amarinder.jpg 671w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/>Punjab Chief Minister\u00a0Capt. Amarinder Singh\u00a0on Sunday urged the Centre for quick resolution of the issue of opening up of the Kartarpur Sahib corridor for preparedness of 550th birth anniversary of Sikhism&#8217;s founder Guru Nanak Dev.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Singh said he had personally met the prime minister Narendra Modi and the external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj and requested them to take up the issue with Pakistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Speaking to the reporters, Singh said that Kartarpur Corridor being one of the parts of the bilateral issues, it needs an active engagement from both India\u00a0and\u00a0Pakistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">His urged comes a day after New Delhi rejected Islamabad&#8217;s proposal of resumption of dialogue, saying talks and terror cannot go hand-in-hand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Moreover, the Centre said that the Pakistan is yet to officially communicate on the issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Ministry of External Affairs also claimed that it has been raising the issue with Islamabad rigorously over the past few decades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe government is planning to commemorate the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak, in a big manner,\u201d the Chief Minister said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab Chief Minister\u00a0Capt. Amarinder Singh\u00a0on Sunday urged the Centre for quick resolution of the issue of opening up of the Kartarpur Sahib corridor for preparedness of 550th birth anniversary of Sikhism&#8217;s founder Guru Nanak Dev. Singh said he had personally met the prime minister Narendra Modi and the external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj and requested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,1801],"tags":[1507,574,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303131"}],"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=303131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303133,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303131\/revisions\/303133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}