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The India–Pakistan, Indo–Pakistani or Pakistani-Indian border is the international boundary that separates the nations of the Republic of India and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. At its northern end is the Line of Control, which separates Indian-administered Kashmir from Pakistani-administered Kashmir; and at its southern end is Sir ...
Attari–Wagah border ceremony. Coordinates: 31°36′17″N 74°34′23″E. Attari–Wagah border ceremony. Wagah border Pakistan side. The ceremony takes place on the border between Attari, India and Wagah, Pakistan but technically it is on Hardo Rattan land as Attari village ends 3km before the Border although it is the last Railway Station ...
The Wagah border is the only road crossing between India and Pakistan and lies on the famous Grand Trunk Road, connecting Lahore, Pakistan with Amritsar, India. Each evening, the Wagah-Attari border ceremony takes place, in which the flags are lowered and guards on both sides make a pompous military display and exchange handshakes.
The Line of Control ( LoC) is a military control line between the Indian - and Pakistani -controlled parts of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir —a line which does not constitute a legally recognized international boundary, but serves as the de facto border. It was established as part of the Simla Agreement at the end of the Indo ...
LA [ 9 ] Website. ladakh .nic .in. Ladakh ( / ləˈdɑːk /) [ 10 ] is a region administered by India as a union territory [ 1 ] and constitutes an eastern portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and India and China since 1959. [ 2 ]
The India–Pakistan border continues irregularly southward for about 1,280 kilometers, following the Radcliffe line, named for Sir Cyril Radcliffe, the head of the British Boundary Commission on the division of the Punjab and Bengal provinces of British India on 13 August 1947.
The Durand Line ( Pashto: د ډیورنډ کرښه; Urdu: ڈیورنڈ لائن; Dari: خط دیورند ), also known as the Afghanistan–Pakistan border, is a 2,640-kilometre (1,640 mi) international border between Afghanistan and Pakistan in South Asia. [ 1][ a] The western end runs to the border with Iran and the eastern end to the border ...
Last month, two Indian border guards and three civilians were injured in fighting along the fronter with Pakistan. India and Pakistan have a long history of bitter relations over Kashmir.