{"id":75826,"date":"2018-08-17T16:51:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T11:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=75826"},"modified":"2018-08-17T16:51:29","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T11:51:29","slug":"sidhu-arrives-in-pakistan-for-imran-khans-oath-taking-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=75826","title":{"rendered":"Sidhu arrives in Pakistan for Imran Khan&#8217;s oath-taking ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lahore, Aug. 17 (TNS): Former Indian cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu arrived in Pakistan to attend the oath-taking ceremony of Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>Sidhu arrived in Lahore via Wagah border and then left for Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters in Lahore, Sidhu welcomed the &#8216;change&#8217; in Pakistan brought about by the advent of the Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have come to Pakistan on my friend&#8217;s [Imran] invitation. These are very special moments,&#8221;\u00a0Sidhu said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hindustan\u00a0<em>jeevey<\/em>, Pakistan\u00a0<em>jeevey<\/em>!&#8221; he chanted.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-cricketer said athletes and artists erase distances [between countries]. &#8220;I have come here bearing the message of love, and prayers for Pakistanis,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The former Indian cricketer will meet Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan in Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Lahore, Aug. 17 (TNS): Former Indian cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu arrived in Pakistan to attend the oath-taking ceremony of Prime Minister. Sidhu arrived in Lahore via Wagah border and then left for Islamabad. Speaking to reporters in Lahore, Sidhu welcomed the &#8216;change&#8217; in Pakistan brought about by the advent of the Imran Khan-led Pakistan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lahore","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75826","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=75826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75828,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75826\/revisions\/75828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}