American space agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has released a picture showing the border between India and Pakistan, taken from space. According to a report in Economic Times, about 2,000 km of the global border is floodlit and hence racks up a major electricity bill for the government. The image was clicked while looking north across Pakistan’s Indus River valley.
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To the far west of the border, one can see Karachi, marked by a thick cluster of lights, a port city of Pakistan and once a very prosperous town.
In the photograph, clusters of yellow lights on the Indo-Gangetic plain reveal numerous cities large and small in northern India and northern Pakistan. They can be seen with a distinct orange hue. In 2003, the Indian government chose to use floodlights on part of the border to deter arms trafficking and smuggling.
Another photograph, released in 2011, shows the border zone looking southeast from the Himalayas.
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NASA on Sunday shared a few stunning pictures of the global border of India and Pakistan as seen from the outer space. “A daylight view shows the vegetated bends of the Indus Valley winding through the otherwise desert country”.
