As guns fall silent, J&K's border residents prepare to vote in hope they are not uprooted again
19 Dec 2014 12:40 PM IST19 Dec 2014 12:40 PM IST
As guns fall silent, J&K's border residents prepare to vote in hope they are not uprooted again
A BSF jawan stands guard at the Suchetgarh-Sialkot border between India and Pakistan.The milestone informs Pakistani City Sialkot is only 11 km away and Lahore just 141 km (Photo: DC / Yusuf Jameel)- A woman walks down a muddy lane at Nai Basti Gulab Garh, a village at stone's thrown from the border with Pakistan in Suchetgarh area of Jammu and Kashmir (Photo: DC/Yusuf Jameel)
- 'Eikh hi bar aar ya paar hojaye" (Let they fight it to the finish)," pleads border resident Mohan Lal Choudhary (Photo: DC/Yusuf Jameel)
- BOP (Border Out Post) Octroi which served as a railway station at Suchetgarh before the Partition in 1947 (Photo: Yusuf Jameel)
- Border Security Force (BSF) has laid Concertina razor wire at the entry/exit point at the Suchetgarh-Sialkot border between India and Pakistan (Photo: Yusuf Jameel)
- The Tourist Reception Centre at Suchetgarh. India and Pakistan are seriously discussing the proposal to open another crossing point between the two sides at Suchetgarh-Sialkote border in Jammu and Kashmir (Photo: DC / Yusuf Jameel)
- A BSF jawan stands guard at the Suchetgarh-Sialkot border between India and Pakistan. The milestone and nearby signpost inform Pakistani City Sialkot is only 11 km away and Lahore just 141 km. The first Pakistan military post 'Inayat' is located at
- The drop-gate at Suchetgarh-Sialkote border being manned by the BSF which serves as the first defence line along the International Border (called 'working boundary' by Islamabad) in Jammu and Kashmir. Also seen (right) is the last ATM of State Bank
- A banyan tree that stands right in the middle of 'zero line' on Suchetgarh-Sialkot border . "Half of it is on their side and the remaining half on our side...we can't change it as it is natural," said BSF Havaldar Ashok Kumar Bajore. The area with
A BSF jawan stands guard at the Suchetgarh-Sialkot border between India and Pakistan.The milestone informs Pakistani City Sialkot is only 11 km away and Lahore just 141 km (Photo: DC / Yusuf Jameel)
As guns fall silent, J&K's border residents prepare to vote in hope they are not uprooted again
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