{"id":310424,"date":"2019-03-14T07:49:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T07:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310424"},"modified":"2019-03-14T07:49:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T07:49:09","slug":"india-pakistan-begin-talks-on-kartarpur-corridor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-pakistan-begin-talks-on-kartarpur-corridor\/","title":{"rendered":"India, Pakistan begin talks on 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-310425 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/India-n-pak-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"519\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/India-n-pak-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/India-n-pak-768x491.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/India-n-pak-696x445.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/India-n-pak-656x420.jpg 656w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/India-n-pak.jpg 833w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Indian and Pakistani officials on Thursday began talks at Attari, near Amritsar, to finalise modalities of the corridor to the Kartarpur Sahib gurdwara.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cCommitment to fulfil a dream!\u201d Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cTalks begin between India &amp; Pakistan to discuss and finalize the modalities for the #KartarpurCorridor, at Attari, Amritsar, that\u2019ll facilitate Indian pilgrims to visit the holy shrine of Gurudwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The meeting began after the arrival of the Pakistani delegation via the Attari-Wagah joint check post land border. Officials of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), National High Authority of India and other related departments represented the Indian side at the talks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Pakistani delegation at the talks is led by Foreign Office Spokesperson Dr Muhammad Faisal. The delegation also includes senior officials of Foreign Ministry, Interior Ministry, Ministry of Law and Justice and Religious Affairs Ministry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Addressing the media prior to departure, Dr Faisal said they are heading to India for talks with a positive message and hopefully the talks will succeed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An Indian delegation is expected to visit Islamabad for a follow-up meeting on March 28.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian and Pakistani officials on Thursday began talks at Attari, near Amritsar, to finalise modalities of the corridor to the Kartarpur Sahib gurdwara. \u201cCommitment to fulfil a dream!\u201d Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar tweeted. \u201cTalks begin between India &amp; Pakistan to discuss and finalize the modalities for the #KartarpurCorridor, at Attari, Amritsar, that\u2019ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[3925,574,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310424"}],"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=310424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310426,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310424\/revisions\/310426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}