BSF Commandant S H Dhillon handed over seven boxes of traditional Indian sweets and a big basket of fruits to the Wing Commander of Pakistan Rangers Mohhammad Akbar Ali Bhatt at the joint check post at Attari Border.
Amid the prevailing tension between India and Pakistan over ceasefire violations along their border, Pakistani Rangers refused to accept the sweets offered by the Border Security Force on the occasion of Eid.
A seven-member Pakistan judicial commission on Saturday arrived in Attari in Punjab to cross examine witnesses in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack case.
About 14 kg of heroin being smuggled from Pakistan in the trans-border Samjhauta Express were seized and four passengers of the train arrested for allegedly carrying the contraband, having a street value of Rs 70 crore, officials said here on Tuesday.
When alleged smugglers fired from across the border at their patrol vehicle
After attracting criticism on the social media for "taking credit", Khurshid on Sunday said that he had only "stated the truth".
Officials of Border Security Forces and Pakistan Rangers in a meeting in Attari on Wednesday discussed the issue of illegal border crossing and agreed to exercise restrain with innocent civilians crossing the international border inadvertently.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's childhood friend Raja Mohammed Ali, who was in India for the past few days, on Monday crossed over to Pakistan through the Indo-Pak Attari checkpost in Attari. Raja came to India for the first time after independence on May 23 to meet Dr Singh.
Chawla, who is the general secretary of Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee and is known to speak for 'Khalistan', had shared the purported picture on his Facebook page.
The Indian response came as Pakistan summoned India's Acting Deputy High Commissioner S Raghuram and expressed concern over the cancellation of operation of Samjhauta Express on Thursday due to farmer protest in India leaving over 200 passengers from both countries stranded.
The Deewana incident resembles the Mumbai blasts of July 2006 in three respects -- the terrorists attacked a soft target; it was an act of mass casualty terrorism; and they chose a train as their target
"The prime minister expressed anguish and grief at the loss of lives. The culprits will be caught," a spokeperson said.
"The way he (Pakistan MP) is saying that 'pair kaanp rahe the' (his legs were trembling). It is because the military posture was very offensive... God forbid if there are military misadventure on 27th and hit some of our military installations, we were in a position to wipe out their forward brigades. They know what is our capability," he said.
Indian cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu, on Sunday, said that he received a lot of love from Pakistani people and hoped there should be peace between India and Pakistan.
It is the first meeting between officials of India and Pakistan to discuss the Kartarpur corridor issue, amid heightened tensions between the two nations over the Pulwama terror attack, followed by India's pre-emptive air strike on Jaish-e-Mohammed camps in Balakot and Pakistan's subsequent retaliation.
The festival of Rakshabandhan is being celebrated across the country on Thursday.
'I kept my hope alive', says wife of Gajanand Sharma.
Pakistan government repatriated 172 Indian fishermen and one civil prisoner on Monday.
The Punjab government has suggested anambitious multi-crore project to the Centre.
During the meeting at a medical facility of the Indian Air Force, Varthaman is understood to have explained to Sitharaman details about his nearly 60 hour stay in Pakistan.
The actress got married to long time beau Rishi Attari.
The Northern Railways on Sunday cancelled the two special trains which were to be run between Attari and Chandigarh.
Both the Oakland and San Jose police are searching for Dr Zehra Attari, missing since Monday.
Defence personnel from both the nations shook hands and exchanged several platters of sweets as they posed for pictures as well.
Eligible Pakistanis, for the two categories, have to cross the Wagah border by foot and then obtain the visas at Attari, the entry point to India, Indian High Commission in Islamabad said.
The director general-level talks between border forces of India and Pakistan kicks off on Thursday days after parleys between their national security advisers were cancelled with the host nation set to flag the "most important" issue of ceasefire violations and cross-border infiltration.
On this day, sisters tie a rakhi on her brother's wrist, symbolising the former's love and prayers for the latter's well-being.
Business on both sides ready to move into a completely new era, as India and Pakistan begin freeing the genie, maybe, hopefully, irreversibly
Bharatiya Janata Party activists on Sunday held a protest demonstration at Attari along Indo-Pak border in Amritsar against the Pakistani government over the death of Sarabjit Singh in a Lahore hospital following a murderous assault on him.
Giving a new fillip to its relations with Pakistan, India has started visa on arrival facility for senior citizens of that country.
"Hindustan jeevay, Pakistan jeevay," he chanted while reading a verse.
The family of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who is in coma after being brutally attacked in a Lahore jail, on Sunday crossed over to Pakistan through the border here to see him and appealed to the authorities there to allow him to come to India for treatment.
Country watchers in both India and Pakistan recognise the swampy terrain of the Slough of Despond ahead. It's no-visa season again
A Mumbai-based software engineer, who claimed to have inadvertently crossed over to Pakistan in 2007 via the Samjhauta Express and was jailed there for five years, was repatriated on Thursday. Bhavesh Parmar, 33, a resident of Ville Parle area in Mumbai, crossed over to India from Attari in Punjab. He was received by his mother Hansa Kanti and Member of Legislative Assembly Krishna Hegde, who helped the family take up the matter.
According to customs officials, the cross-border movement of trucks will drop further.
The Indian tennis federation on Saturday confirmed that it will approach world governing body ITF, seeking a neutral venue for the Davis Cup tie against Pakistan.
Of the 315 Indian fishermen released by Pakistan from a prison in Karachi, 215 reached in Attari in Punjab on Thursday, officials said.
The fourth batch of Hindu families from Pakistan on Thursday crossed over to India with the members claiming that they were not seeking asylum but any move from the Indian government to help them settle down here is welcome.
Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday parried a question on Pakistan's claim that there was no proof against LeT founder Hafiz Saeed's involvement in terrorist activities in India, saying issues of disagreement should not be discussed on happy occasions.
