{"id":35191,"date":"2017-12-06T12:49:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T07:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=35191"},"modified":"2017-12-06T14:09:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T09:09:28","slug":"london-to-lahore-mayor-sadiq-khan-arrives-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=35191","title":{"rendered":"London to Lahore, Mayor Sadiq Khan arrives Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lahore, Dec. 6 (TNS):<\/strong> London Mayor Sadiq Khan arrived in Pakistan on Wednesday for a three-day official visit.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor, who is on a\u00a0trade mission, reached\u00a0Lahore\u00a0with his 16-member delegation through the Wagah Border.<\/p>\n<p>The delegation was received by Lahore Mayor Colonel (retd) Mubashir at the border.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hello Mumbai! My trade trip to India &amp; Pakistan to promote business &amp; cultural ties starts with meeting the press here in India&#8217;s centre of commerce. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LondonIsOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LondonIsOpen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CyGrdnckBj\">pic.twitter.com\/CyGrdnckBj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sadiq Khan (@SadiqKhan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SadiqKhan\/status\/937228565774512128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe welcome Mayor Sadiq Khan\u00a0from the historic city of London to the historic city of Lahore,\u201d\u00a0Chief Minister Punjab\u00a0Shehbaz Sharif tweeted.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35192\" src=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1-47.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1-47.jpg 700w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1-47-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1-47-696x398.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Khan visited India where he met top businessmen and celebrities of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The visit is the first by the mayor of London to both South Asian rival countries in recent years. Khan is expected to stop over in Karachi and Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35193\" src=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Capture2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Capture2.png 554w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Capture2-300x113.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The London mayor is accompanied by a team of British IT executives, who have been meeting politicians, investors and entrepreneurs in Pakistan and India to strengthen trade links with both countries.<\/p>\n<p>The visit would also seek to boost investment and cultural exchange programmes between London and the sub-continent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore, Dec. 6 (TNS): London Mayor Sadiq Khan arrived in Pakistan on Wednesday for a three-day official visit. The mayor, who is on a\u00a0trade mission, reached\u00a0Lahore\u00a0with his 16-member delegation through the Wagah Border. The delegation was received by Lahore Mayor Colonel (retd) Mubashir at the border. Hello Mumbai! My trade trip to India &amp; Pakistan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,23],"tags":[157,589],"class_list":["post-35191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lahore","category-national","tag-lahore","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35214,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35191\/revisions\/35214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}