{"id":306333,"date":"2018-11-30T08:57:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T08:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306333"},"modified":"2018-11-30T08:57:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T08:57:14","slug":"kartarpur-corridor-us-welcomes-india-pakistans-efforts-to-increase-people-to-people-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/kartarpur-corridor-us-welcomes-india-pakistans-efforts-to-increase-people-to-people-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Kartarpur corridor: US welcomes India, Pakistan\u2019s efforts to increase people-to-people ties"},"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-305975 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/kartarpur-corridor-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"285\" 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: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The United States on November 29 has welcomed efforts by India and Pakistan to increase people-to-people ties, days after both the countries laid foundation stones for the Kartarpur Sahib corridor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Robert Palladino, US State Department deputy spokesperson, said, &#8220;I&#8217;m aware of the reports of this Kartarpur corridor, as you referenced there. I understand that it&#8217;s kind of a visa-free way for Indians to visit this important Sikh site. And of course, the US &#8212; we would welcome efforts to increase people-to-people ties between India and Pakistan.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Kartarpur corridor, which India had proposed to Pakistan around 20 years ago, is expected to be completed within six months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The corridor will link Darbar Sahib in Pakistan&#8217;s Kartarpur with Dera Baba Nanak shrine in Gurdaspur district, Punjab and facilitate visa-free movement of pilgrims.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States on November 29 has welcomed efforts by India and Pakistan to increase people-to-people ties, days after both the countries laid foundation stones for the Kartarpur Sahib corridor. Robert Palladino, US State Department deputy spokesperson, said, &#8220;I&#8217;m aware of the reports of this Kartarpur corridor, as you referenced there. I understand that it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[9829,10011,4582],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306333"}],"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=306333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306334,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306333\/revisions\/306334"}],"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=306333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}