{"id":48666,"date":"2018-11-29T11:40:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T11:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=48666"},"modified":"2018-11-29T11:40:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T11:40:17","slug":"pak-pm-imran-khan-lays-foundation-stone-for-kartarpur-corridor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/pak-pm-imran-khan-lays-foundation-stone-for-kartarpur-corridor\/","title":{"rendered":"Pak PM Imran Khan lays foundation stone for Kartarpur corridor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday laid the foundation stone for a corridor linking Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan&#8217;s Kartarpur &#8211; the final resting place of Sikh faith&#8217;s founder Guru Nanak Dev &#8211; to Dera Baba Nanak shrine in India&#8217;s Gurdaspur district to facilitate visa-free movement of Indian Sikh pilgrims.<\/p>\n<p>Union ministers Harsimrat Kaur Badal and Hardeep Singh Puri represented India at the event.<\/p>\n<p>Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu was also present on the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Kartarpur Sahib in Pakistan is located across the river Ravi, about four kilometres from the Dera Baba Nanak shrine. It was established by the Sikh Guru in 1522.<\/p>\n<p>The Kartarpur Corridor, which will facilitate the visa-free travel of Indian Sikh pilgrims to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur, is expected to be completed within six months.<\/p>\n<p>The development comes ahead of Guru Nanak&#8217;s 550th birth anniversary next year.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of Sikh devotees from India visit Pakistan every year to celebrate the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday laid the foundation stone for a corridor linking Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan&#8217;s Kartarpur &#8211; the final resting place of Sikh faith&#8217;s founder Guru Nanak Dev &#8211; to Dera Baba Nanak shrine in India&#8217;s Gurdaspur district to facilitate visa-free movement of Indian Sikh pilgrims. Union ministers Harsimrat Kaur [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48668,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48666\/revisions\/48668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}