{"id":309913,"date":"2019-03-01T10:22:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T10:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309913"},"modified":"2019-03-01T10:26:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T10:26:11","slug":"attari-wagah-retreat-ceremony-cancelled-for-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/attari-wagah-retreat-ceremony-cancelled-for-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Attari-Wagah Retreat Ceremony Cancelled for Friday"},"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-309914 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/attari-wagah-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/attari-wagah-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/attari-wagah.jpg 549w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The daily Retreat ceremony at the Attari-Wagah border front between India and Pakistan was &#8220;cancelled&#8221; on Friday in the wake of IAF Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman&#8217;s release from Pakistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A senior official said the BSF had cancelled the event due to security reasons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Scores of enthusiastic people assembled at the border today to receive Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot Abhinandan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Wing Commander was captured by Pakistan on Wednesday after his plane went down during an aerial battle over the Line of Control (LoC).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan yesterday announced that they would release IAF pilot as a &#8220;peace gesture&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The daily Retreat ceremony at the Attari-Wagah border front between India and Pakistan was &#8220;cancelled&#8221; on Friday in the wake of IAF Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman&#8217;s release from Pakistan. A senior official said the BSF had cancelled the event due to security reasons. Scores of enthusiastic people assembled at the border today to receive Indian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":309914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[3925,301],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309913"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309917,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309913\/revisions\/309917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}