{"id":306557,"date":"2018-12-04T04:51:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T04:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306557"},"modified":"2018-12-04T04:51:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T04:51:52","slug":"pakistan-opens-immigration-centre-at-kartarpur-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pakistan-opens-immigration-centre-at-kartarpur-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan opens immigration centre at Kartarpur border"},"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=\"475\" height=\"290\" 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: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pakistan has set up an immigration centre at the Kartarpur border following the ground-breaking of the landmark corridor for 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;\">The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director (Punjab) Mufakhar Adeel said, \u201cThe FIA has set up an immigration office at Kartarpur border in Narowal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Adeel said that since the border could be an easy passage for drug dealers, terrorists and human traffickers a strong mechanism was required to keep the situation under control on both sides.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe FIA officers will check the documents of pilgrims and identify them through biometric technology. Pilgrims with visas will be allowed to enter the city while those with permits will be given access to Gurudwara Darbar Sahib only,\u201d Adeel said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Imran Khan laid the foundation stone of the Kartarpur corridor on November 28 and Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh laid the foundation stone for the Kartarpur Sahib corridor in Gurdaspur on November 26.<\/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 said that his government wanted a \u201ccivilised relationship\u201d with India and declared that Islamabad would move two steps forward if New Delhi took one step.<\/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 is however, expected to be completed within six months.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan has set up an immigration centre at the Kartarpur border following the ground-breaking of the landmark corridor for Sikh pilgrims. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director (Punjab) Mufakhar Adeel said, \u201cThe FIA has set up an immigration office at Kartarpur border in Narowal.\u201d Adeel said that since the border could be an easy passage [&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":[10065,10063,10064,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306557"}],"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=306557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306558,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306557\/revisions\/306558"}],"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=306557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}