India and Pakistan grapple with 70 years of Partition pain
Add BT as a preferred sourcePublished Mon, Aug 14, 2017 · 09:50 PM
Wagah, India
FROM barbed grins in a carefully synchronised daily flag ceremony to murderous exchanges across barbed wire in Kashmir, the India-Pakistan border is a 70-year-old scar that will not heal.
Thousands will cheer at the Wagah border crossing this week as the two countries celebrate the anniversaries of their independence, when British India was carved into two nations.
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