Security forces of India and Pakistan will not be exchanging candies across their borders during their Independence Day celebrations this year, a senior Indian paramilitary official said on Wednesday. “Neither are we going to offer nor will we accept any gift”, said BSG IG Punjab Frontier Anil Paliwal. has decided that it will neither offer nor accept candies and gifts from the Pakistani Rangers.
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The force had planted an estimated 3.10 lakh saplings as part of the same initiative a year ago.
Ideally, candies were exchanged between India and Pakistan across the Wagah-Attari global border in Punjab.
While Pakistan will celebrate its Independence Day on Friday, India’s falls on Saturday.
The Border Security Force (BSF) headquarters in Delhi has communicated the decision not to hold the ceremonial exchange at their formations in the western sector of the country along Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab and Jammu & Kashmir independently. Paliwal informed that extra deployment of the force has been done on the border.
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In 2015 till July 26, there were 192 ceasefire violations along the worldwide Border in J&K which resulted in death of three civilians and one BSF personnel, Minister of State for Home Affairs Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary said in a written reply. The latest development comes in the backdrop of two terror incidents in Gurdaspur in Punjab and Udhampur in Jammu and Kashmir, where it is believed that militants crossed over to this side from across the border to perpetrate violence.
