Punjab Director General of Police Dinkar Gupta on Saturday said his remarks on the Kartarpur corridor have been “willfully misconstrued” o...
Punjab Director General of Police Dinkar Gupta on Saturday said his remarks on the Kartarpur corridor have been “willfully misconstrued” or misunderstood, The Indian Express reported. At an event hosted by the newspaper in Panchkula city on Wednesday, Gupta had claimed that the corridor poses a “potential threat to national security”.
“Kartarpur offers a potential threat,” Gupta had said on Wednesday, adding there were reasons why the government chose not to throw open the corridor all these years. “You send somebody in the morning as an ordinary chap and by evening he comes back as trained terrorist. You are there for six hours, you can be taken to a firing range, you can be taught to make an IED [improvised explosive device].”
On Saturday, however, Gupta said he had rejoiced at the opening of the corridor. “Their [the devotees] daily ardas [prayer] for ‘khulle darshan-deedaar’ of religious shrines that remain in post-Partition Pakistan, was finally answered,” he said. “It was a matter of even greater happiness that it coincided with the 550th Prakash Purab of Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji.”
The Punjab police chief said that the state government and all its agencies worked very hard towards the opening of the corridor on November 9. “As the state DGP, I...
