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Arab News
20-05-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
India to resume border ceremony with Pakistan
AMRITSAR: India said Tuesday it would resume a daily border ceremony with neighboring Pakistan which it briefly halted earlier this month following the most serious conflict between the nuclear armed arch-rivals for decades. At least 60 people died in fighting triggered by an April 22 attack on tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir that New Delhi accused Islamabad of backing — a charge Pakistan denies. India's Border Security force said the sunset ceremony on its side would be open to the media on Tuesday and to the general public on Wednesday at the Attari-Wagah land border in the northern state of Punjab. Pakistan said it never stopped the ceremony, with its troops marching on its side of the border alone. The ceremony however is expected to be a low-key affair with diplomatic measures against Pakistan still in place, including the closure of the land border. For years, the ceremony at the Attari-Wagah border has been a popular tourist attraction. Visitors from both sides come to cheer on soldiers goose-stepping in a chest-puffing theatrical show of pageantry. The frontier was a colonial creation at the violent end of British rule in 1947 which sliced the sub-continent into Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan. The daily border ritual has largely endured over the decades, surviving innumerable diplomatic flare-ups and military skirmishes.
Khaleej Times
20-05-2025
- Politics
- Khaleej Times
India to resume daily border ceremony with Pakistan
India said on Tuesday it would resume a daily border ceremony with neighbouring Pakistan which it briefly halted earlier this month following the most serious conflict between the nuclear armed arch-rivals for decades. At least 60 people died in fighting triggered by an April 22 attack on tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir that New Delhi accused Islamabad of backing -- a charge Pakistan denies. India's Border Security force said the sunset ceremony on its side would be open to the media on Tuesday and to the general public on Wednesday at the Attari-Wagah land border in the northern state of Punjab. Pakistan said it never stopped the ceremony, with its troops marching on its side of the border alone. The ceremony however is expected to be a low-key affair with diplomatic measures against Pakistan still in place, including the closure of the land border. For years, the ceremony at the Attari-Wagah border has been a popular tourist attraction. Visitors from both sides come to cheer on soldiers goose-stepping in a chest-puffing theatrical show of pageantry. The frontier was a colonial creation at the violent end of British rule in 1947 which sliced the sub-continent into Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan. The daily border ritual has largely endured over the decades, surviving innumerable diplomatic flare-ups and military skirmishes.
South China Morning Post
10-05-2025
- Politics
- South China Morning Post
India-Pakistan conflict halts IPL, sparks panic buying of food, medicine, and fuel
Many Indians, especially those living in areas closer to the Pakistan border, have started hoarding groceries, medicines, petrol and cancelling travel plans, amid a rapid escalation in military conflict between the two nuclear-armed nations. Advertisement Citizens across towns in Punjab in India, such as Pathankot, Amritsar and Chandigarh, are seeing such panic buying. Gagandeep Madan, a 42-year-old who owns a kirana shop – a family-run store – about 14km (9 miles) from the Attari-Wagah border near Amritsar in Punjab, said almost all shops in the area, including his, had run out of food essentials on Wednesday. 'Customers came and bought about one month's worth of wheat, rice, sugar and pulses,' Madan said. 'Panic set in among everyone here. Everyone wanted to be prepared.' India said it 'neutralised' Pakistani drone and missile attacks targeting several military sites on Thursday night, marking a second day of hostilities between the neighbours. India began the military strikes on Wednesday on what it called terrorist targets in Pakistan in retaliation for an April 22 attack that killed 26 civilians in the India-controlled part of Kashmir region. With both nations saying they have shot down drones and missiles from the other in the past few days, local media reports say tourist hotspots are seeing dwindling footfalls. India has shut down more than two dozen airports in northern and western parts of the country. Panic Buying Some residents in Amritsar, which saw a blackout last night, stored water in large containers, fearing power outages would mean they can't use their electric pumps to draw groundwater.
