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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Wagah - The Untold Story

The Partition Museum in Amritsar Is the One Place in India That Should Stop You Cold

The Wall Does Not Let You Stay a TouristThe Partition Museum sits on Town Hall Chowk in Amritsar, and it does not announce itself the way the Golden Temple does. There is no gold. No single luminous point drawing crowds forward. You walk in, and the first thing you encounter…

'What have I done?': The moment Jinnah confronted the horrors of Partition

'What have I done?': The moment Jinnah confronted the horrors of Partition

Journalist Kuldip Nayar recounted Muhammad Ali Jinnah's despair over Partition's human tragedy. He witnessed streams of people fleeing across the divided Punjab from an aircraft. Nayar also described the devastation and fear he experienced approaching the Wagah border. The scale of the upheaval became increasingly visible as violence escalated significantly.…

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Where India's Border Towns Blur Every Line Between Culture, Identity, and Crossing

Where India's Border Towns Blur Every Line Between Culture, Identity, and Crossing

Moreh, Manipur: The Market That Ignores the LineThe stalls at Moreh's daily market sell Myanmarese thanaka paste three rows from Indian turmeric, and the sellers switch between Meitei, Burmese, and a stitched-together pidgin depending on who is standing in front of them. The border crossing here is a gate, technically,…

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Visiting the Wagah border crossing – India’s tribute to Checkpoint Charlie

The Man Who Pays His Way: Where India meets Pakistan a frontier is no longer a border crossing, it’s performance

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Halt in India-Pak. trade ties: Political boundaries, personal losses

Trade halt at Attari-Wagah border between India and Pakistan leads to economic crisis in border districts.

198 Indian fishermen released from Pakistani jail

Pakistani authorities have released 198 Indian fishermen, who were languishing at a jail here after being arrested for allegedly fishing illegally in the country’s waters, and handed them over to India at the Wagah border.

3 from Shamli arrested in Pakistan with pistols ‘part of smuggling racket’

SHAMLI: After 70-year-old man Nafees Ahmad, his wife Aamna and 35-year-old son Mohd Kaleem – residents of Nokua Mohalla in Shamli -- were arrested at Wagah border by Pakistani authorities on Wednesday for carrying pistols illegally, an intelligence officer said, on condition of anonymity, that they could be part of…

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Shah inaugurates border viewing point in north Gujarat

Shah inaugurates border viewing point in north Gujarat

It has been built as a tourist attraction on the lines of the Wagah-Atari border in Punjab

Pak to hand over 20 Indian fishermen to India at Wagah

Pak to hand over 20 Indian fishermen to India at Wagah

Twenty Indian fishermen arrested by Pakistan for allegedly entering into the country's territorial waters are set to be handed over to India through the Wagah border crossing on Monday, according to a senior jail official.

In a first, Pakistani Hindu leader proposes flights for pilgrims to India instead of Wagah road route

In a first, Pakistani Hindu leader proposes flights for pilgrims to India instead of Wagah road route

Officials strike cautious note, say government clearances may take time, given tensions

Pakistan to hand over 20 Indian fishermen to India at Wagah

Pakistan to hand over 20 Indian fishermen to India at Wagah

There are now 568 Indian fishermen left in the jail

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