The Border Security Force at the Wagah border has shunned it age-old practice of displaying aggressive postures at the Pakistani Rangers during the daily sunset parade.
"The aggressive postures during the gate closing ceremony as part of age-old practice are no more on the Indian side. Now we are quite hopeful that shortly both BSF and Pakistani Rangers at Wagah border would be friendly," BSF DIG Hemant Purohit told PTI.
Though the Pakistani side is expected to reciprocate by this month-end as per the decision taken at a meeting between the BSF and rangers in Lahore last week, the change in the overall atmosphere at the border checkpoint was evident from last evening, as the usual anti-Indian and anti-Pakistani slogans were also not heard.
The aggression was replaced by hundreds of schoolgirls on the Pakistan side waving red roses at the Indian crowd and the gesture returned by Christian nuns in white dresses on the Indian side.
"Pakistan may take little time more to stop the show of aggression. But certainly they would reciprocate," Purohit hoped.
Official sources told PTI the two border forces have started 'reorienting' their personnel involved in the decades-old ritualistic exercise.
