{"id":83217,"date":"2020-10-30T11:58:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T11:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=83217"},"modified":"2020-10-30T11:58:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T11:58:52","slug":"decision-to-re-open-kartarpur-corridor-will-be-as-per-covid-19-protocol-mea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/decision-to-re-open-kartarpur-corridor-will-be-as-per-covid-19-protocol-mea\/","title":{"rendered":"Decision to re-open Kartarpur Corridor will be as per Covid-19 protocol: MEA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New Delhi<br>\nAhead of the Guru Nanak Jayanti the Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday said that a decision to re-open the Kartarpur Corridor will be taken as per the coronavirus protocol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking at the weekly virtual briefing, Anurag Srivastava, MEA Spokesperson, said that the Kartarpur Corridor was closed due to COVID-19 protocol and it will re-opened only after consultation with all the concerned authorities. &#8220;The decision to reopen the Kartarpur Corridor will be in line with #COVID19 protocol. We are in touch with all the concerned authorities,&#8221; said Srivastava.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On October 2, Pakistan government had announced the re-opening of the 4.7-kilometre-long passage that connects Dera Baba Nanak Sahib in India&#8217;s Gurdaspur and Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan&#8217;s Kartarpur. It was inaugurated last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Kartarpur Corridor was shut down by the Indian government in March.Pakistan&#8217;s government had also imposed a ban on Pakistani nationals from travelling via the Kartarpur corridor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was reopened briefly in June to commemorate Maharaja Ranjit Singh&#8217;s death anniversary, with India rejecting Pakistan&#8217;s offer and refusing to open the corridor on its side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi Ahead of the Guru Nanak Jayanti the Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday said that a decision to re-open the Kartarpur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83217","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=83217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83219,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83217\/revisions\/83219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}