The Indo-Pakistani competition to see which country can fly the highest flag at the Wagah Border will begin once more. India will raise its tricolor to a height of 418 feet at the Joint Check Post.
LAHORE: The competition to raise the highest national flag on the Pakistan-India border at Wagah-Attari is expected to resume.
India will raise the highest tricolour in front of its stadium at the Joint Check Post (JCP) in Wagah, where a 418-foot tower has been built. India is taking the initiative.
Sources claim that New Delhi would also equip the 418-foot tricolour pole with contemporary cameras so that it can watch the region for many kilometres on all four sides.
Prior to it, India raised a 360-foot tricolour in March 2017, to which Pakistan responded by raising a 400-foot flag on its 70th Independence Day on August 14, 2017.
It is the highest flag in South Asia and the seventh-tallest in the world, measuring 120 feet long and 80 feet wide. General Qamar Javed Bajwa, then-chief of the army, raised it.
Pakistan is anticipated to take action to raise its flag higher than that of its bitter foe, India, which has announced plans to hoist the tricolour to a height of 418 feet.
Both flags can be seen from a distance of several kilometres, and both nations have invested millions of rupees in the race to raise theirs higher than the others.
The Independent claims that Pakistan expressed worries about India’s highest flag ever being used for “espionage” in 2017.
The flag, which is 110 metres high and can be seen in Lahore, was raised at the Attari border, prompting Islamabad to charge New Delhi with breaking international agreements.
Pakistan complained to the Border Security Force and expressed concerns that covert cameras could have been mounted on the flagpole for espionage reasons.
