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Anti-India Slogans Raised, Stones Thrown From Pak During Retreat Ceremony At Wagah

IANS, 03 Oct, 2016 12:26 PM
    Anti-India slogans were raised from the Pakistani side during the retreat ceremony at the Attari-Wagah border in Punjab on Sunday, prompting the Border Security Force to register a protest with the Pak Rangers.
     
    People seated in viewers gallery on the Pakistani side raised anti-India slogans at least for ten minutes, Indian officials posted at the Attari border said.
     
    Officials said that some stones were also thrown from the Pakistani side a few minutes before the beginning of the retreat ceremony.
     
    Officials said BSF held a flag meeting with the Pakistani Rangers after the 50-minute ceremony ended.
     
    "There was sloganeering and unruly conduct by the spectators from the Pakistani side. There were some reports about pelting of stones also... We called a flag meeting with the Rangers and told them about the issue," a senior BSF official said.
     
    The situation during the flag lowering ceremony was apparently quite tense.
     
    The retreat ceremony is held every evening where both the sides lower their national flags and shut the gates in the presence of the public.
     
    Tension has been high between the two countries following the terror attack on an army camp in Uri, in which 19 soldiers were killed, and subsequent surgical strikes on terror launch pads by India across the Line of Control (LoC).

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