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The Border Security Force (BSF) responded to a late evening communication by Pakistan Rangers to carry out the
ceremony after they had yesterday expressed their desire to stop it for three days.
BSF and Pakistani Rangers jawans at Beating Retreat ceremony at Attari-Wagah international border on Monady, a day after the blast. (Source: PTI)
The iconic flag-lowering and retreat ceremony at Wagah resumed partially on the Indian side, a day after a powerful terror blast killed 61 people across this border in Pakistan.
BSF and Pakistani Rangers jawans at Beating Retreat ceremony at Attari-Wagah international border on Monady, a day after the blast. (Source: PTI)
"We were told about 4pm by Pak Rangers that they would want to carry out the evening ceremony ruling out their
yesterday's wish to stop the ceremony for three days. As it was late for us to carry out the full-fledged drill our troops conducted a scaled-down procedure without the public," BSF chief D K Pathak told PTI.
BSF IG Frontier Ashok Kumar addresses the media at Attari-Wagah international border on Monday, a day after the blast. (Source: PTI)
Across the border, Pakistan allowed general public to view the popular flag-lowering ceremony at Wagah
along the Indo-Pak border.
Pakistani border guards perform high kicks during a flag lowering ceremony after a Sunday suicide bombing at the Pakistan-Indian border post, in Wagah, Pakistan, Monday, Nov. 3, 2014. Pakistanis mourned on Monday for the victims of a massive suicide bombing near the border with India as the death toll from the explosion the previous day rose to at least 60, police said. (Source: AP)
Pakistan has erected big tents to camouflage the blast site in order to hide the vision from Indian side. Outside Attari Border, Indians were seen anxiously enquiring about the blast from visitors coming from Pakistan.
A Pakistani border guard performs a high kick during a flag lowering ceremony after a Sunday suicide bombing at the Pakistan-Indian border post, in Wagah, Pakistan, Monday, Nov. 3, 2014. (Source: AP)
BSF and Pakistani Rangers jawans at Beating Retreat ceremony at Attari-Wagah international border on Monady, a day after the blast. (Source: PTI Photo)
Visitors during the Beating Retreat ceremony at Attari-Wagah international border on Monday, a day after the blast. (Source: PTI)
