Information about Wagah
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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 itself is a village where the controversial Radcliffe Line was drawn through. Before 1947 the village was unified. Today, the western half of Wagah village is in Pakistan whilst the other half is in India.
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.[1]
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Hindi
Writing system: Devanagari script
Official status
Official language of: India
Fiji (as Hindustani)
Regulated by: Central Hindi Directorate (only in India)[1]
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ISO 639-1: hi
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Writing system: Devanagari script
Official status
Official language of: India
Fiji (as Hindustani)
Regulated by: Central Hindi Directorate (only in India)[1]
Language codes
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Urdu
Writing system: Urdu alphabet (Nasta'liq script)
Official status
Official language of: Pakistan ;
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Writing system: Urdu alphabet (Nasta'liq script)
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The Grand Trunk Road (abbreviated to GT Road in common usage) is one of South Asia's oldest and longest major roads. For several centuries, it has linked the eastern and western regions of the Indian subcontinent, running from Bengal, across north India, into Peshawar in Pakistan.
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Amritsar (Punjabi: ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਸਰ, Hindi: अमृतसर),
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Amritsar (Punjabi: ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਸਰ, Hindi: अमृतसर),
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Lahore (Urdu: لاہور, Punjabi: لہور, pronounced [la.
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Motto
اتحاد، تنظيم، يقين محکم
Ittehad, Tanzim, Yaqeen-e-Muhkam (Urdu)
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The Radcliffe Line became the border between India and Pakistan on 17 August 1947 after the Partition of India. The line was decided by the Border Commissions chaired by Sir Cyril Radcliffe, who was to equably divide 175,000 square miles of territory with 88 million people.
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Punjab /span>]] ?· i ਪੰਜਾਬ in Gurmukhi, Punjabi: ਪੰਜਾਬ, Hindi: पंजाब
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