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Punjab: Attari-Wagah border closure to hit biz, but traders say they stand with country

Hindustan Times 25 Apr 2025
With Pakistan suspending all trade with India, including to and from any third country through its territory, trade with Afghanistan via the Attari-Wagah border integrated check post (ICP) has also come to a halt.
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Pak says diverting Indus water 'act of war', suspends Simla pact

The Times of India 25 Apr 2025
... suspended the IWT, closed the Wagah-Attari border, revoked Saarc visa exemptions for Pakistanis, expelled Pakistani military advisers, and slashed Pakistan's High Commission staff in New Delhi to 30.
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Beating retreat event at Attari scaled down

Hindustan Times 25 Apr 2025
The ceremony at the border points draws several thousand people, especially at the Attari-Wagah border in Punjab ... Pakistan citizens too come to their side of the border.The stands nearby have a capacity of 30,000.
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Trade between Afghanistan and India halted amid Kashmir tensions

Khaama Press 25 Apr 2025
The closure of the Attari-Wagah border, the sole land route facilitating trade between India and Pakistan, has significantly disrupted commerce with Afghanistan ... The closure of the Attari-Wagah border ...
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Indian soldier held after ‘straying’ into Pakistan

Dawn 25 Apr 2025
... the border in Kasur district ... Indian media outlets also reported that a flag meeting between the BSF and Pakistan Rangers was convened at the Attari-Wagah border to negotiate Mr Singh’s release.
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UK issues travel advisory advising its citizens not to visit within 10 km of India-Pakistan border

Anadolu Agency 25 Apr 2025
In its update, the Foreign Office said all travel within 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) of the India-Pakistan border must be avoided because the Wagah-Attari border has been closed.
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Pakistan announces countermeasures against India

People Daily 25 Apr 2025
In response, Pakistan will close down the Wagah Border Post, suspend certain visa facilities for Indian nationals, declare the Indian Defence, Naval and Air Advisors in Islamabad persona non grata, ...
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Travel alert: Pakistan shuts airspace, suspends visas and Simla Agreement, following Pahalgam terror attack

The Times of India 25 Apr 2025
Soon after it was reported that it was an act of cross-border terrorism, a ... India on the other hand has also closed the Attari-Wagah border, the only operational land route between the two nations.
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‘Don’t know if they did it for Islam, they’re not my cousins’: Told to leave within 48 hours, Pakistani nationals voice anguish

The Times of India 25 Apr 2025
A wave of distress and uncertainty swept through the Attari-Wagah border as several Pakistani nationals, many of them visiting family or receiving medical treatment, began returning home after India ...
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Pahalgam terror attack: In 2 days, 7 big decisions by India against Pakistan

Hindustan Times 25 Apr 2025
... border in Punjab. Hundreds of visitors, foreign tourists and locals visit the Attari-Wagah border on either side daily to watch the flag-lowering and retreat ceremony that is being held since 1959.
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House of local terrorist Adil Thokar, involved in Pahalgam terror attack, demolished

The Times of India 25 Apr 2025
... that claimed 26 lives.Thokar, who legally traveled to Pakistan in 2018 through the Attari-Wagah border, allegedly received terrorist training before covertly returning to Jammu and Kashmir last year.
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J&K Pahalgam attack: Pakistan deputy PM refers to terrorists as 'freedom fighters'

The Times of India 25 Apr 2025
Previously, defence minister Rajnath Singh had assured a 'loud and clear' Indian response.Islamabad countered with its own measures, including suspending the 1972 Simla Agreement, closing the Wagah ...
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Pakistan suspends visas for Indian nationals amid rising tensions over Pahalgam terror attack

The Times of India 25 Apr 2025
120604482In retaliation, India suspended visa services for Pakistani nationals and shut the Attari-Wagah land border along with suspending the Indus Water Treaty, a longstanding water-sharing agreement with Pakistan ... .
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Assault on rivers will be ‘act of war’

Dawn 25 Apr 2025
• Airspace closed for India’s planes, Wagah border shut, trade completely halted, all visas cancelled except for Sikh pilgrims ... The NSC ordered the immediate closure of the Wagah border crossing, suspending all cross-border transit without exception.
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