{"id":35294,"date":"2017-12-06T21:55:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T16:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=35294"},"modified":"2017-12-06T21:55:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T16:55:33","slug":"mayor-of-london-pays-a-visit-to-badshahi-masjid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=35294","title":{"rendered":"Mayor of London pays a visit to Badshahi Masjid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LAHORE, 6 Dec (TNS):<\/strong> Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, accompanied by his Lahore counterpart Col (R) Mubashir, paid a visit to the historical Badshahi Mosque and Allama Iqbal\u2019s mausoleum in Lahore.<\/p>\n<p>London Mayor Sadiq Khan arrived in Pakistan on an official visit on Wednesday as a part of \u2018London Is Open\u2019 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Khan who arrived in India, where he visited Mumbai, Delhi and Amritsar earlier this week entered Pakistan through Wagah Border, where was received by Lahore Mayor.<\/p>\n<p>Penning down his thoughts in the visitor\u2019s book, Sadiq Khan was presented the guard of honor on this occasion.<\/p>\n<p>He is scheduled to spend three days in Pakistan and besides Lahore, he will visit Islamabad and Karachi.<\/p>\n<p>Sadiq Khan is the first London&#8217;s mayor to visit both India and Pakistan as he looks to promote closer ties between the two countries and the capitals.<\/p>\n<p>Talking to The News on December 2 Sadiq Khan said that British Pakistanis made London the greatest city in the world. \u201cI want to spread the massage when I go to Pakistan and India,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor of London and his delegation arrived at the Chief Minister House amid strict security where he was received by Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif.<\/p>\n<p>Sharif hosted a luncheon for the guests and discussed issues of mutual interest during the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Sadiq Khan thanked the host for the warm welcome he received during his first visit to Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE, 6 Dec (TNS): Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, accompanied by his Lahore counterpart Col (R) Mubashir, paid a visit to the historical Badshahi Mosque and Allama Iqbal\u2019s mausoleum in Lahore. London Mayor Sadiq Khan arrived in Pakistan on an official visit on Wednesday as a part of \u2018London Is Open\u2019 campaign. Mr Khan who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[247],"class_list":["post-35294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35294","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=35294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35296,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35294\/revisions\/35296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}