The Wagah border often called the 'Berlin wall of Asia' is the only road border crossing between what two countries?
"the BSF did not exchange sweets and greetings with Pakistani Rangers on Diwali 2016, despite a long tradition of doing so on major religious festivals like Bakr-Eid and Diwali, and also during Independence Days of both countries. These border ceremonies done by the Pakistan Rangers and BSF just before sunset are not only carried out at Wagah, but it is also done at other India-Pakistan border posts, such as at the: These ceremony which is other than Wagah are carried out in a smaller setting, and spectators tend to originate from local Punjabis rather than at the Wagah where Indians/Pakistanis"
"border crossing. The Wahga railway station lies 400 meters to the south and only 100 meters from the Border line itself. In Pakistan the Border crossing is known as Wahga Border whereas in India it is called Atari Border crossing, named after the Indian village Atari, which lies 500 meters east of the border line within Indian territory. It is particularly known for the elaborate Wagah border ceremony that happens at the border gate, two hours before sunset each day.[2] The flag ceremony is conducted by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) and Pakistan Rangers (PR). Virasat-e-Khalsa (Punjabi: ਵਿਰਾਸਤ-ਏ-ਖਾਲਸਾ) is a"
"only road crossing between India and Pakistan and lies on the famous Grand Trunk Road, connecting Lahore, Pakistan with Amritsar, India. Each evening, the Wagah border ceremony takes place at the Wagah border in which the flags are lowered and guards on both sides make a pompous military display and exchange handshakes. Hindustani is the linga franca of North India and Pakistan, as well as the official language of both countries, under the standard registers Hindi and Urdu, respectively. Standard Urdu is mutually intelligible with Standard Hindi. Hindustani is also widely understood and used as a lingua franca amongst South"
"Wakhjir Pass The Wakhjir Pass, also spelled Vakhjir Pass, is a mountain pass in the Hindu Kush or Pamirs at the eastern end of the Wakhan Corridor, the only pass between Afghanistan and China. It links Wakhan in Afghanistan with the Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County in Xinjiang, China, at an altitude of , but the pass is not an official border crossing point. The border has the sharpest official change of clocks of any international frontier ( in Afghanistan to UTC+8, in China). China refers to the pass as ""South Wakhjir Pass"" (), as there is a northern pass on"
"Karameh Border Crossing Karameh Border Crossing (Arabic: مركز حدود الكرامة) is the only border crossing between Jordan and Iraq. On the Iraqi side it is called the Turaibil Border Compound (Arabic: مجمع طريبيل الحدودي). The crossing served about 800,000 passengers in the year 2010 according to ""Al-Arab Al-Yawm"" newspaper. It connects the Jordanian town of Ruwaished to the Iraqi town of Turaibil. The border crossing is about 320 km (199 miles) from Jordan's capital Amman and 575 km (357 miles) from the Iraqi capital Baghdad. On 22 June 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant assaulted the border crossing"
"between Britain and Russia in 1873 and between Britain and Afghanistan in 1893 effectively split the historic area of Wakhan by making the Panj and Pamir Rivers the border between Afghanistan and the Russian Empire. On its south side, the Durand Line agreement of 1893 marked the boundary between British India and Afghanistan. This left a narrow strip of land as a buffer between the two empires. In 1949, when Mao Zedong completed the Communist takeover of China, the borders were permanently closed, sealing off the 2,000-year-old caravan route and turning the corridor into a cul-de-sac. When the Soviets invaded"
"Bab al-Hawa Border Crossing The Bab al-Hawa Border Crossing (, ""Gate of the Winds"") is an international border crossing between Syria and Turkey. It is situated on the M45 Syrian Highway and D827 Turkish Highway between the cities of İskenderun and Aleppo, and is known for its long lines of trucks and buses. The closest town on the Turkish side of the border is Reyhanlı in the Hatay Province, and the closest towns on the Syrian side are ad-Dana and Atarib. The crossing is the site of a 6th-century triumphal arch. In the ongoing Syrian Civil War, it was a"
"Dzungarian Gate The Dzungarian Gate is a geographically and historically significant mountain pass between China and Central Asia. It has been described as the ""one and only gateway in the mountain-wall which stretches from Manchuria to Afghanistan, over a distance of three thousand miles."" Given its association with details in a story related by Herodotus, it has been linked to the location of legendary Hyperborea. The Dzungarian Gate (; ""Jetisy' qaqpasy"" or Жоңғар қақпасы ""Jon'g'ar qaqpasy"") is a straight valley which penetrates the Dzungarian Alatau mountain range along the border between Kazakhstan and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. It currently"
"east. To the north is Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous region. To the south, the corridor is bounded by the high mountains of the Hindu Kush and Karakoram. Along the southern flank of the corridor, there are two mountain passes which connect the corridor to its neighbours. The Broghol pass offers access to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region of Pakistan, while the Irshad Pass connects the corridor to Gilgit Baltistan in Azad Kashmir. The Dilisang Pass, which also connects to Gilgit-Baltistan, is disused. The easternmost pass, as indicated above, is the Wakhjir Pass, which connects to China and is the only border connection"
"Teesta waters and the land boundary pact. From November 2013, A Wagah Border-like ceremony is being organised at Petrapole (in West Bengal, India) - Benapole (Bangladesh) border checkpoint. The ceremony which includes parades, march-past and lowering of the national flag of both the countries is now a daily routine, at sundown, on the eastern border. The relations between the countries are definitely moving in positive direction. Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj visited Bangladesh in her first official overseas trip in June, 2014. On 7 May 2015 the Indian Parliament, in the presence of Bangladeshi diplomats, unanimously passed the Land"
"and clashed with the Iraqi Army in an attempt to capture the crossing. Karameh Border Crossing Karameh Border Crossing (Arabic: مركز حدود الكرامة) is the only border crossing between Jordan and Iraq. On the Iraqi side it is called the Turaibil Border Compound (Arabic: مجمع طريبيل الحدودي). The crossing served about 800,000 passengers in the year 2010 according to ""Al-Arab Al-Yawm"" newspaper. It connects the Jordanian town of Ruwaished to the Iraqi town of Turaibil. The border crossing is about 320 km (199 miles) from Jordan's capital Amman and 575 km (357 miles) from the Iraqi capital Baghdad. On 22"
"of Amritsar, Punjab, India, and Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. The border is located 24 kilometres (15 mi) from Lahore and 32 kilometres (20 mi) from Amritsar. It is also 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) from the bordering village of Attari. Wagah, named Wahga in Pakistan, is a village near which the accepted Radcliffe Line, the boundary demarcation line dividing India and Pakistan upon the Partition of India, was drawn.[2] The village lies 600 meters west of the Border line. At the time of independence in 1947, the migrants from the Indian parts of the subcontinent entered the present day Pakistan through this"
"place every evening immediately before sunset at the Wagah border, which as part of the Grand Trunk Road was the only road link between these two countries before the opening of the Aman Setu in Kashmir in 1999. The ceremony starts with a blustering parade by the soldiers from both sides, and ends up in the perfectly coordinated lowering of the two nations' flags. It is called the Beating Retreat border ceremony on the international level. One infantryman stands at attention on each side of the gate. As the sun sets, the iron gates at the border are opened and"
"short border with Afghanistan as part of its claim to the whole of Jammu and Kashmir. The claimed border covers about 105km (65m) of the eastern-most section of the Afghan-Pakistan boundary (i.e. the border between Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor bordering Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan province, formerly the Northern Areas). In 2010 Richard Holbrooke, Special US Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan, caused some controversy in India by stating that ""India doesn't have a common border with Afghanistan"". In 2015 national security advisor Ajit Doval re-affirmed the Indian claim to an Afghan border. Durand Line The Durand Line () is the international border between Pakistan"
"Wesh–Chaman border crossing The Wesh–Chaman border crossing is one of the major international border crossings between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Located on the Pak-Afghan border, it leads north from the town of Chaman, Balochistan into Wesh in Spin Boldak, Kandahar province. More generally, it links the two provincial capitals: Quetta and Kandahar. A brick, double-arched Friendship Gate, rising three stories tall, was erected in 2003. The gate facing towards Balochistan bears the words ""Proud Pakistani"" and ""Pakistan First"". Its official hours run from morning to sunset, though smuggling may continue at night. The Wesh-Chaman border crossing has been used by international"
"export trade with India, and allows Afghan goods to be transited up to any border of Pakistan, but does not guarantee Afghan trucks the right to traverse the Wagah Border, nor does the agreement permit Indian goods to be exported to Afghanistan via Pakistan. Owing to continued tensions between India and Pakistan, the Pakistani government expressed reluctance to include India in any trade negotiations with Afghanistan, and as a result, little progress was made between the Afghan and Pakistani sides. In February 2016, the Pakistani government signalled its intention to completely bypass Afghanistan in its quest to access Central Asia"
"the crossing. Gaza–Egypt border The Gaza–Egypt border is the long border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. There is a buffer zone along the border, called the Philadelphi Route, which is about long. The Rafah Border Crossing is the only crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. It is located on the international border that was confirmed in the 1979 Israel–Egypt Peace Treaty. Only passage of persons takes place through the Rafah Border Crossing. All goods traffic must use the Kerem Shalom border crossing on the Israel–Gaza border. On 1 October 1906, the Ottoman and British governments agreed on"
"Afghanistan–Pakistan barrier The Afghanistan–Pakistan barrier is a partly-built border barrier being constructed by Pakistan to restrict illegal immigration and infiltration across the Durand Line, the porous, international border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Major General Shaukat Sultan, former Pakistani military spokesman, said the move was necessary to block the infiltration of militants across the border. The proposed fence was initially backed by the United States. As of November 2017, Pakistan had fenced 43 km of the border, primarily in the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas. The Durand Line is marked by 235 crossing points, some of which are susceptible to infiltration."
"Afghanistan–Pakistan barrier The Afghanistan–Pakistan barrier is a partly-built border barrier being constructed by Pakistan to restrict illegal immigration and infiltration across the Durand Line, the porous, international border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Major General Shaukat Sultan, former Pakistani military spokesman, said the move was necessary to block the infiltration of militants across the border. The proposed fence was initially backed by the United States. As of November 2017, Pakistan had fenced 43 km of the border, primarily in the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas. The Durand Line is marked by 235 crossing points, some of which are susceptible to infiltration."
"Gaza–Egypt border The Gaza–Egypt border is the long border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. There is a buffer zone along the border, called the Philadelphi Route, which is about long. The Rafah Border Crossing is the only crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. It is located on the international border that was confirmed in the 1979 Israel–Egypt Peace Treaty. Only passage of persons takes place through the Rafah Border Crossing. All goods traffic must use the Kerem Shalom border crossing on the Israel–Gaza border. On 1 October 1906, the Ottoman and British governments agreed on a boundary"
"sometimes used as a low-intensity drug smuggling route, and is used to transport opium made in Afghanistan to China. Afghanistan has asked China on several occasions to open the border in the Wakhan Corridor for economic reasons or as an alternative supply route for fighting the Taliban insurgency. However, China has resisted, largely due to unrest in its far western province of Xinjiang, which borders the corridor. , it was reported that the United States had asked China to open the corridor. Wakhjir Pass The Wakhjir Pass, also spelled Vakhjir Pass, is a mountain pass in the Hindu Kush or"
"in a flat and dry area, though this route involves Pakistan's Khojak Pass at just from the border. The border connects Kandahar and Spin Boldak in Afghanistan with Quetta in Pakistan, The Wakhan Corridor in the northeast lies between the Hindu Kush and the Pamir Mountains, which leads to the Wakhjir Pass into Xinjiang in China. Taking the highlands of the country as a whole, there is no great difference between the mean temperature of Afghanistan and that of the lower Himalaya. Each may be placed at a point between . However, the remarkable feature of Afghan climate is its"
"Rafah Border Crossing The Rafah Border Crossing ( ""Ma`bar Rafaḥ"", ) or Rafah Crossing Point is the sole crossing point between Egypt and Gaza Strip. It is located on the Gaza–Egypt border, which was recognized by the 1979 Israel–Egypt Peace Treaty. The original crossing point was named Rafah land port. Only passage of persons takes place through the Rafah Border Crossing. Traffic of goods is mostly diverted to the Kerem Shalom border crossing. The ""Rafah land port"" became the primary border crossing between Egypt and Gaza, managed by the Israel Airports Authority until Israel had dismantled its settlements in Gaza"
"part of a city wall. There is a further complex of Byzantine architecture near the archway, that has been largely destroyed and re-used in border construction. It features a church along with another large rectangular building. Bab al-Hawa Border Crossing The Bab al-Hawa Border Crossing (, ""Gate of the Winds"") is an international border crossing between Syria and Turkey. It is situated on the M45 Syrian Highway and D827 Turkish Highway between the cities of İskenderun and Aleppo, and is known for its long lines of trucks and buses. The closest town on the Turkish side of the border is"
"had extraordinarily long lifespans. Dzungarian Gate The Dzungarian Gate is a geographically and historically significant mountain pass between China and Central Asia. It has been described as the ""one and only gateway in the mountain-wall which stretches from Manchuria to Afghanistan, over a distance of three thousand miles."" Given its association with details in a story related by Herodotus, it has been linked to the location of legendary Hyperborea. The Dzungarian Gate (; ""Jetisy' qaqpasy"" or Жоңғар қақпасы ""Jon'g'ar qaqpasy"") is a straight valley which penetrates the Dzungarian Alatau mountain range along the border between Kazakhstan and the Xinjiang Uyghur"
"bus service connecting the Indian capital of Delhi with the city of Lahore, Pakistan via the border transit post at Wagah, which is the only border crossing point between India and Pakistan opened for international travelers. The bus was of symbolic importance to the efforts of the governments of both nations to foster peaceful and friendly relations. In its inaugural run on February 19, 1999, the bus carried the then-Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who was to attend a summit in Lahore and was received by his Pakistani counterpart, Nawaz Sharif at Wagah. Its official name is the ""Sada-e-Sarhad"""
"and food products from Pakistan and Afghanistan. The border crossing was replaced by the border crossing at Wagah, a little further north. In 2005 there were proposals to reopen the border, but it remained closed. Since 1970 there has been a Retreat Ceremony at the border crossing every day at 6 pm, similar to the Mahavir/Sadaki near Fazilka and Wagah/Atari border ceremony. Attendees are seated in close proximity here, as compared to Wagah where crowds are kept far apart. And unlike the jingoistic display at Wagah which draws nationalistic tourists from all over India and Pakistan, the Hussainiwala ceremony is"
"Erez Crossing The Erez Crossing (, ) is a border crossing on the Israel–Gaza barrier located at the northern end of the Gaza Strip, on the border with Israel. The Erez Crossing is the only land crossing for the movement of people between the Gaza Strip and Israel and the West Bank, as well as third countries when Rafah Crossing is closed. It is restricted to Palestinian residents under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority and to Egyptian nationals or international aid officials. Israel only permits Palestinian residents to travel via Erez in “exceptional humanitarian cases,"" and exceptionally of students"
"Asia. At , Pakistan is the 36th largest country by area, more than twice the size of Montana, and slightly larger than Alberta. Pakistan shares its borders with four neighboring countries – People's Republic of China, Afghanistan, India, and Iran while Tajikistan is separated by thin Wakhan Corridor– adding up to about in length (excluding the coastal areas). Pakistan borders Afghanistan at the Durand Line, , which runs from the Hindu Kush and the Pamir Mountains. A narrow strip of Afghanistan territory called the Wakhan Corridor extends between Pakistan and Tajikistan. From the eastern tip of the Wakhan Corridor starts"
"at the Karasu Border Crossing. The bilateral agreement signed between China and Tajikistan includes the opening of the pass for nationals of all countries. After an initial period where foreigners were still turned back, since 2017, foreign travelers have been passing regularly and without extra problems. Kulma Pass The Kulma Pass () or Qolma Pass, also referred to as Karasu Pass, is a mountain pass across the Pamir Mountains on the border between the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region of Tajikistan and the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China. Asian Highway AH66 runs through the pass, which provides for the only modern day"
"the corridor acted as a buffer between the Russian Empire (Russian Turkestan) and the British Empire (British India). Its eastern end bordered China's Xinjiang, ruled by the Qing dynasty. As of 2010, the Wakhan Corridor had 12,000 inhabitants, The northern part of the Wakhan is also referred to as the ""Pamir"". populated by the Wakhi and Pamiri people. The Wakhan Corridor forms the panhandle of Afghanistan's Badakhshan Province. At its western entrance near the Afghan town of Ishkashim, the corridor is wide. The western third of the corridor varies from in width and widens to in the central Wakhan. At"
"The government of Afghanistan has asked the People's Republic of China on several occasions to open the border in the Wakhan Corridor for economic reasons or as an alternative supply route for fighting the Taliban insurgency. The Chinese have resisted, largely due to unrest in its far western province of Xinjiang, which borders the corridor. , it was reported that the United States had asked China to open the corridor. Wakhan Corridor The Wakhan Corridor ( ""Wāxān Dahléz"", ) is a narrow strip of territory in northeastern Afghanistan that extends to China and separates Tajikistan from Pakistan. The corridor, wedged"
"Afghanistan was at the time the Kingdom of Afghanistan. It is believed that in more recent times, the main pass, Wakhjir Pass, is sometimes used as a low intensity drug smuggling route, and is used to transport opium made in Afghanistan, to China. Afghanistan has asked China on several occasions to open the border in the Wakhan Corridor for economic reasons or as an alternative supply route for fighting the Taliban insurgency. However, China has resisted, largely due to unrest in its far western province of Xinjiang, which borders the corridor. , it was reported that the United States had"