{"id":306168,"date":"2018-11-27T07:03:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T07:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306168"},"modified":"2018-11-27T07:10:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T07:10:18","slug":"hotels-railway-station-to-be-constructed-for-sikh-pilgrims-in-kartarpur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/hotels-railway-station-to-be-constructed-for-sikh-pilgrims-in-kartarpur\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotels, railway station to be constructed for Sikh pilgrims in Kartarpur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/president-kovind-captain-amarinder-to-lay-foundation-stone-of-proposed-kartarpur-corridor-on-nov-26\/kartarpur-corridor\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-305975\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305975 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/kartarpur-corridor-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/kartarpur-corridor-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/kartarpur-corridor.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/a>The Pakistan government would provide land to Sikh organisations for construction of hotels in Kartarpur, Nankana Sahib and Narowal and a railway station in Kartarpur to provide state-of-the-art board and lodging facilities to Sikh pilgrims visiting Pakistan, a minister announced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Federal Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid Ahmed made the remarks on Monday after seeing off Indian Sikh pilgrims who departed for Lahore through special trains after offering their religious rituals at Gurdwara Panja Sahib in Hassan Abdal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ahmed said, Pakistan Railways (PR) had offered 10 acres of land each in Kartarpur and Nankana Sahib and five acres of land in Narowal to Sikhs&#8217; organisations for establishment of five-star hotels to facilitate Sikh pilgrims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He further said that trains would run from Nankana Sahib to Kartarpur and hostels would be constructed near all Sikh pilgrimage sites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Minister said that the Imran Khan government wanted to provide all facilities to Sikh pilgrims and the government was investing millions of rupees for modernisation of Hasan Abdal and Narowal railway stations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Over 3800 visas to\u00a0Sikh pilgrims from India were issued to participate in the birthday anniversary celebrations of Baba\u00a0Guru Nanak Dev in Pakistan from November 21 to 30, 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistan government would provide land to Sikh organisations for construction of hotels in Kartarpur, Nankana Sahib and Narowal and a railway station in Kartarpur to provide state-of-the-art board and lodging facilities to Sikh pilgrims visiting Pakistan, a minister announced. Federal Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid Ahmed made the remarks on Monday after seeing off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[9921,9919,9922,9923,9918,9920],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306168"}],"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=306168"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306172,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306168\/revisions\/306172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}