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Wagah

Field	Value
name	Wagah
official_name	Wahga
native_name
settlement_type	Union Council of Pakistan
image_skyline	File:Wagah_border_ceremony2.jpg
imagesize	300px
image_caption	The evening flag lowering ceremony at the Pakistan–India international border near Wagah
image_map	Wagah-Attari (OpenStreetMap).png
mapsize	300px
map_caption	Location of Wagah
pushpin_map	Punjab Pakistan#Pakistan
pushpin_label_position	bottom
pushpin_mapsize	300
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Pakistan
coordinates
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Pakistan
subdivision_type2	District
subdivision_name2	Lahore
subdivision_type3	Zone
subdivision_name3	Wahga Zone
subdivision_type4	Union Council
subdivision_name4	181
established_title
government_type
leader_name
unit_pref	Imperial
elevation_footnotes
population_total	Cantonment village: 26,900
Municipal corporate council: 560,968
Border: 230,008
timezone	PKT
utc_offset	+5
postal_code_type

Note

Municipal corporate council: 560,968 Border: 230,008

Wagah (; ; ), also spelled Wagha or Wahga, is a village and union council (UC 181) located in the Wahga Zone near Lahore City District, Pakistan. The town is famous for the Wagah border ceremony and also serves as a goods transit terminal and a railway station between Pakistan and India.

Wagah is situated 600 m west of the India-Pakistan border and lies on the historic Grand Trunk Road between Lahore and Amritsar in India. The border is located 24 km from Lahore and 32 km from Amritsar. It is also 3 km from the bordering village of Attari in India. The Wagah flag-lowering ceremony – by the border security personnel of Pakistan (Pakistan Rangers) and India (Border Security Force) has been taking place here every evening since 1959.

Border ceremony

Main article: Wagah-Attari border ceremony

Border crossing

The border crossing draws its name from Wahga village, near which the Radcliffe Line, the boundary demarcation line dividing India and Pakistan upon the Partition of British India, was drawn. At the time of the independence in 1947, migrants from India entered Pakistan through this border crossing and vice versa. The Wagah railway station is 400 m to the south and 100 m from the border.

Border crossing ceremony

The Wagah-Attari border ceremony happens at the border gate, two hours before sunset each day. The flag ceremony is conducted by the Pakistan Rangers and Indian Border Security Force (BSF), similar to the retreat ceremonies at Ganda Singh Wala/Hussainiwala border crossing and Mahavir/Sadqi International Parade Ground border crossing. A marching ceremony, known as the "Silly Walk ceremony", is conducted each evening along with the flag ceremony. The ceremony started in 1986 as an agreement of peace, although there was not a conflict at that time.

Gallery

File:Pakistani Flag Wahga Border.jpg|122m high Pakistani flag on Wagah Border File:Stadium wahga border.jpg|Stadium-like seating at Pakistani side of the border File:Wagha border.jpg|The Pakistani gate at the border crossing File:Bab e Azadi Wahga Border.jpg|Bab-e-Azadi (Gate of Independence) on Pakistani side of Wagah Border Wagah border indian bsf.jpg|Indian BSF at Wagah Women personnel of India's Border Security Force.jpg|Women personnel of Indian BSF at Wagah File:Soldiers at Wagah border.jpg|Punjab Rangers at Waga

References

"The Punjab Gazette".
(14 August 2007). "Mixed feelings on India-Pakistan border". [[BBC News]].
Khaleeli, Homa. (1 November 2010). "Goodbye to the ceremony of silly walks between India and Pakistan". The Guardian.
Jacobs, Frank. (3 July 2012). "Peacocks at Sunset". The New York Times.

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