{"id":75336,"date":"2025-05-23T16:36:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T11:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=75336"},"modified":"2025-05-23T16:36:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T11:36:02","slug":"kartarpur-corridor-open-for-sikh-pilgrims-since-may-7-shafqat-ali-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/kartarpur-corridor-open-for-sikh-pilgrims-since-may-7-shafqat-ali-khan\/","title":{"rendered":"Kartarpur corridor open for Sikh pilgrims since May 7: Shafqat Ali Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/iranian-foreign-minister-arrives-islamabad-on-one-day-official-visit\/\">spokesperson<\/a> Shafqat Ali Khan said in a weekly briefing that Pakistan has kept the Kartarpur corridor open but it is being closed by the Indian side.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have always welcomed<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/khalistan-leader-claims-20-million-sikhs-stand-with-pakistan\/\"> pilgrims<\/a> and remain committed to facilitating their visit,\u201d he said adding that India has kept the corridor closed since May 7.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"96\" data-end=\"400\">He confirms the contact between the Director Generals of Military Operations (DGMOs) to minimize the tension along the Line of Control (LoC).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"96\" data-end=\"400\">Earlier, Pakistan on Friday categorically rejected the \u201cbaseless, provocative, and irresponsible\u201d allegations made by the Indian Prime Minister during a recent public address in Rajasthan, asserting that such statements clearly aimed at stoking regional tensions for narrow political gains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe remarks, replete with distortions, misrepresentations, and inflammatory rhetoric, are clearly aimed at stoking regional tensions for narrow political gains. Such statements not only reflect a deliberate attempt to mislead the public but also violate the norms of responsible statecraft,\u201d Foreign Office spokesperson Shafqat Ali Khan said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>He said that resorting to threats and boasting about military action against a sovereign nation was a grave breach of the United Nations Charter and established principles of international law. This dangerous approach undermines regional peace and stability, he added.<\/p>\n<p>The spokespersons said that Pakistan remained a consistent and proactive partner in the global fight against terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny insinuation seeking to associate Pakistan with acts of terrorism is factually incorrect and patently misleading. It is a tactic often employed to divert attention from India\u2019s own internal challenges, particularly its repressive policies in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"705\" data-end=\"994\">\n<p data-start=\"996\" data-end=\"1186\">\n<p data-start=\"1188\" data-end=\"1550\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office spokesperson Shafqat Ali Khan said in a weekly briefing that Pakistan has kept the Kartarpur corridor open but it is being closed by the Indian side. \u201cWe have always welcomed pilgrims and remain committed to facilitating their visit,\u201d he said adding that India has kept the corridor closed since May 7. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":62296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3824,25720],"class_list":["post-75336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-kartarpur-corridor","tag-sikh-pilgrims"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75337,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75336\/revisions\/75337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}