{"id":76147,"date":"2018-08-20T18:23:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T13:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=76147"},"modified":"2018-08-20T18:23:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T13:23:17","slug":"strong-reply-when-needed-sidhu-on-uproar-over-his-pak-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=76147","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Strong Reply When Needed&#8221;: Sidhu on uproar over his Pak visit \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>CHANDIGARH, Aug. 20 (TNS):\u00a0After drawing flak from Indian Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and the opposition for\u00a0embracing the Pakistan Army chief, cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu said on Monday that he was prepared to give a strong reply to all when needed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whenever the reply has to be given, I will give and I will give it to all&#8230; It will be a strong reply,&#8221; Navjot Singh Sidhu, the only Indian to attend Imran Khan&#8217;s swearing-in ceremony as Pakistan&#8217;s prime minister, said in Chandigarh.<\/p>\n<p>His comments come after Amarinder had yesterday\u00a0ticked off his cabinet colleague\u00a0for hugging Pakistan Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa.<\/p>\n<p>On his return from Pakistan yesterday, Mr Sidhu had defended his action, asking what was he supposed to do when someone tells him that &#8220;we belong to the same culture&#8221; and talks of opening the route to the historic Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; CHANDIGARH, Aug. 20 (TNS):\u00a0After drawing flak from Indian Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and the opposition for\u00a0embracing the Pakistan Army chief, cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu said on Monday that he was prepared to give a strong reply to all when needed. &#8220;Whenever the reply has to be given, I will give and I will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76147","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=76147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76148,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76147\/revisions\/76148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}