Indian troops do the goose-step at Pakistan border!
India-Pakistan
Wagah border and amusing display of one-upmanship -
Indian troops do the goose-step at Wagah border!
Wagah Attari Border antics - the tallest soldiers from both sides march stridently at both ends of the border, to impress and frighten the other side! The Wagah border closing ceremony or 'lowering of the flags' ceremony is a daily military practice that the
Border Security Force of
India and Pakistan Rangers have jointly followed since
1959. This ceremony takes place every evening before sunset at the Wagah border, which as part of the
Grand Trunk Road was the only road link between these two countries before the opening of the
Aman Setu in
Kashmir in
1999.
The ceremony starts with a blustering
parade by the soldiers from both the sides, and ends up in the perfectly coordinated lowering of the two nations' flags. It is called the beating retreat border ceremony on the international level. One infantryman or Jawan stands at attention on each side of the gate. As the sun sets, the iron gates at the border are opened and the two flags are lowered simultaneously. The flags are folded and the ceremony ends with a retreat that involves a brusque handshake between soldiers from either side, followed by the closing of the gates again. India and Pakistan not being on good terms, the soldiers from both sides try to outdo each other with exaggerating March and parades. The spectacle of the ceremony attracts many visitors from both sides of the border, as well as international tourists. In
October 2010,
Major General Yaqub
Ali Khan of the
Pakistan Rangers decided that the aggressive aspect of the ceremonial theatrics should be toned down
The India--Pakistan Border, known locally as the
International Border (IB), is the international boundary between India and Pakistan that demarcates the
Indian states of
Punjab,
Rajasthan and
Gujarat from the
Pakistani provinces of
Punjab and Sindh.
Pakistan borders
India in the east.
The border resulted from the
Partition of India in
1947, which resulted in the two states of India and (
West and East)
Pakistan. The Line of
Control (LoC) separates The
Indian administered
Jammu and Kashmir from
Pakistan administered Azad Kashmir.
Wagah, the ceremonial
point of crossing between India and Pakistan lies along this border between the Indian city of
Amritsar and the
Pakistani city of
Lahore, and is within close distance of both cities' urban sprawl. Wagah is the only road border crossing between
Pakistan and India, and lies on the Grand Trunk Road between the cities of
Amritsar, Punjab, India and
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. Wagah itself is a village through which the controversial
Radcliffe Line, the boundary demarcation line dividing India and Pakistan upon the Partition of India, was drawn.
The village was divided by independence in 1947.
Today, the eastern half of the village remains in the
Republic of India while the western half is in Pakistan. It is particularly known for the elaborate
Wagah border ceremony that happens at the border gate before sunset each day.
Source:
Wikipedia
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