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Ceremony that brings Pakistan and India;historical enemies together

By Shamlal Puri
India and Pakistan have historically been political enemies. Yet, out of this discord comes a carefully choreographed ceremony at Wagha, the boundary between the two nations.

 Athe sun sets over Punjab in northern India, hundreds of excited men, women and children head for the border town of Attari, 30 kilometres from Amritsar, the ancestral home of hundreds of East African residents.

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