{"id":306254,"date":"2018-11-28T14:19:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T14:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306254"},"modified":"2018-11-28T14:23:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T14:23:23","slug":"pakistan-pm-imran-khan-lays-foundation-stone-for-kartarpur-corridor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pakistan-pm-imran-khan-lays-foundation-stone-for-kartarpur-corridor\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan PM Imran Khan lays foundation stone for Kartarpur corridor"},"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-306257 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/imran-1-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/imran-1-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/imran-1.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday\u00a0laid the foundation stone for corridor linking Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan\u2019s Kartarpur to Dera Baba Nanak shrine in Gurdaspur to facilitate the visa-free travel of Indian Sikh pilgrims to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At the ground-breaking ceremony of Kartarpur corridor, Punjab cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu showered heaps of praises in his speech &#8220;Mera yaar dildaar&#8221;,\u00a0the Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, a good friend who has delivered on his promise to establish the Kartarpur corridor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said the senior Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu has gained popularity in Pakistan especially in the country\u2019s Punjab province, where he could win an election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe Congress leader can come and contest election here in Pakistan\u2019s Punjab, he\u2019ll win,\u201d Khan said.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Imran Khan also expressed disappointment over Sidhu&#8217;s criticism by the Indian media, calling it unfair and unsubstantiated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Monday Vice-president M Venkaiah Naidu and Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh had laid foundation stone of a road from Dera Baba Nanak town in Punjab\u2019s Gurdaspur district, which will connect the Kartarpur Corridor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India had proposed the corridor to Pakistan about 20 years back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Last week, both nations had announced that they would develop the corridor on their respective side of the border to help Indian pilgrims visit Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday\u00a0laid the foundation stone for corridor linking Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan\u2019s Kartarpur to Dera Baba Nanak shrine in Gurdaspur to facilitate the visa-free travel of Indian Sikh pilgrims to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur. At the ground-breaking ceremony of Kartarpur corridor, Punjab cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu showered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,53],"tags":[9963,3867,9829,1516],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306254"}],"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=306254"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306259,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306254\/revisions\/306259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}