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Pakistan delegation takes part in vigil

— PTI

CANDLES FOR PEACE: CPI (M) leader Sitaram Yechury (second from left) with a Pakistan National Assembly delegation at a candle lighting programme for peace, at the Wagah border on Saturday (Pakistan's Independence Day) and eve of India's Independence Day.

WAGAH (AMRITSAR), AUG. 15. A six-member delegation from Pakistan, including three lawmakers, participated in the candle light vigil on Indian soil on the eve of the country's Independence Day.

Several eminent people joined the hundreds of residents who had thronged the border on the occasion but some were left disappointed as Border Security Force personnel did not allow them to hold the vigil near Joint Check Post (JCP) at Wagah — the main door of India-Pakistan border.

Even the former Member of Parliament, Kuldip Nayyar, failed to move the BSF officials, who claimed that there was no permission for such an event and the congregation organised the candle light vigil nearly 500 meters away from the JCP.

Three Pakistani lawmakers - two members of the National Assembly and a Senator — who had come with their spouses, joined the celebrations amid calls for greater people-to-people contact and peaceful bilateral relations. — PTI

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