Wagah And Attari Border Ceremony.Around 30–35 km from Amritsar city, the Attari–Wagah border hosts a dramatic daily flag-lowering ceremony between Indian and Pakistani border forces. Grandstands on both sides fill with cheering crowds, patriotic songs blast from loudspeakers, and soldiers perform high kicks, rapid stomps and coordinated drills before simultaneously lowering the national flags. For tourists it’s a unique mix of stadium-like energy, patriotic emotion and choreography, set right on the international border.
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History & highlights
The joint flag-lowering ritual began after Partition as a simple ceremonial gesture between two newly independent nations sharing a frontier. Over the decades it evolved into an elaborate display of “border pageantry”, with ever-taller flagpoles and increasingly stylised drills reflecting ongoing rivalry and pride between India and Pakistan. The Indian side’s main viewing point is at Attari village near Amritsar, while Wagah is on the Pakistani side. Today the ceremony is a major tourist draw and a living symbol of the complex, emotional history between the two countries.
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