Image of Indo-Pakistani border ceremony in Wagah from Michael Palin's BBC TV series 'Himalaya'. The Khaki-uniformed guards are Indian, while the green/black/grey-uniformed ones are Pakistani.
Wagah (Hindi वाघा, Urdu واگها) is the only road border crossing between India and Pakistan, and lies on the Grand Trunk Road between the cities of Amritsar, India and Lahore, Pakistan. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Hindi ( , Devanagari: or , IAST: , IPA: ), an Indo-European language spoken all over India in varying degrees and extensively in northern and central India, is one of the two central official languages of India, the other being English. ... Urdu ( , , trans. ... The Grand Trunk Road (abbreviated to GT Road in common usage) is one of South Asias oldest and longest major roads. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... (Urdu: لاÛور, Punjabi: Ù„Ûور, pronounced ) is the capital of the province of Punjab, and is the second largest city in Pakistan. ...
Wagah itself is a village where the controversial Radcliffe Line was drawn through. Before 1947 the village was obviously unified. Today, one half of the Wagah village is in Pakistan and the other half is in India. The Radcliffe Line became the border between India and Pakistan in 1947. ...
The Wagah border is a ceremonial border where each evening, armed soldiers from each side of the border enact a particularly hostile parade while lowering their respective flags to the sounding of bugles.
Although the parade used to be hostile, over the past few years it has become much more moderate. Now soldiers from both sides of the border shake hands before closing the border gates. This is seen as the result of dialogues and improved relationship between India and Pakistan.
Today are some officers who walk to the headquarters on the otherside for some day to day affairs. There is now also a bus service operating within the split state of Punjab between Amritsar (India) and Lahore (Pakistan), further emphasising improving relations between the two countries.[citation needed]
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Pictures - PakWheels.com
[1vIWoiDk5Fg Video of border closing ceremony] - from the Pakistani side
The Wagah crossing, in the flat, green Punjab countryside, is as fabled as Checkpoint Charlie was in Berlin and the Panmunjom armistice line between North and South Korea.
For the rest of the time, however, the Wagah crossing is a place of unremitting tedium rather than a reflection of the tensions.
One of them was this traveller, a British journalist, another was a Turk and the rest were a Pakistani diplomat, his wife and their four children, according to the dog-eared registration book that a BSF sergeant in crisp khaki filled in by hand.
Wagah, Amritsar, February 12: A large number of cricket fans, awaiting clearance for crossing over to Pakistan to watch the third One-Dayer in Lahore tomorrow, stormed into the customs office at the border here, alleging lack of proper arrangements.
Three persons were injured when agitated fans pelted stones and smashed windowpanes of the custom and immigration building at the Wagah border, officials said.
"Here at the Wagah border there is a provision to clear only one thousand visitors during the day and it was difficult for the custom and immigration people to clear the crowd of three thousand people at once.
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