Anti-India slogans raised, stones thrown from Pak during retreat ceremony at Wagah

TIL Desk/National/Punjab/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.