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Pakistani and Indian border troops along the Line of Control (LoC) on Monday exchanged sweets at three places in Jammu and Kashmir on the occasion of India's Republic Day, said a report published on Indian Express.
A unit of 12 Infantry Brigade of the Indian Army exchanged sweets with Pakistani troops at Kaman Post in Uri sector on Srinagar-Muzaffarabad Road, the report quoted defence sources as saying.
Troops also exchanged sweets at Teetwal in Tangdhar sector of Kashmir and at Chakan-da-Bagh in Poonch Sector of Jammu region.
Despite ceasefire violations and violence in the disputed Himalayan region, the exchange of sweets between Indian and Pakistan army personnel along the LoC on their respective days of national importance has been a recurring feature.
On August 14 last year, Pakistani Rangers had exchanged sweets with personnel from the Indian Border Security Force to celebrate Pakistan’s 68th Independence Day at the India-Pakistan Wagah border post.
Take a look: August 14 Pakistani Rangers, Indian BSF exchange sweets at Wagah
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Jan 26, 2015 06:00pm
Why not. Good.
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Jan 26, 2015 06:03pm
Good tradition...should continue...
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Jan 26, 2015 06:10pm
This should be more frequently. Fist attempt should improving relations with neighbors.
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Jan 26, 2015 06:13pm
Why cant India, and Pakistan, be like US and Canada? Its the radicals on both sides do not want. 68 years passed by, still hate, distrust, enmity, fight over Kashmir, and both nations have gained nothing.
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Jan 26, 2015 06:13pm
Better to exchange sweets than bullets!
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Jan 26, 2015 06:14pm
Wonderful tradition, please carry it..
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Jan 26, 2015 06:15pm
Good news!
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Jan 26, 2015 06:28pm
Finally some positive news. Politicians of both these countries should grow up and stop fighting.
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Jan 26, 2015 06:29pm
Wonderful I say.....shows what can be achieved if there a will! Somebody needs to be brave. Both countries will be better for it.......we have been fools to fall,prey!!
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Jan 26, 2015 06:32pm
this is much better
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Jan 26, 2015 06:33pm
Lovely
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Jan 26, 2015 06:35pm
Is that a Turkish flag in the background next to Pak flag?
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Jan 26, 2015 06:37pm
Thank God. Make it weekly.
Let's not kill each other.
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Jan 26, 2015 06:47pm
..But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
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Jan 26, 2015 06:51pm
Good job for the both sides. You may exchange sweets but not bullets everyday. If you exchange sweet every It will be memorable in world record between two countries. But India shoul take the first step
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Jan 26, 2015 07:06pm
I woule love to see he LOC dissappear one day and people could just move about without any fear. I hope it happens in my life time.
BTW, why just limit to sweets, lets exchange samosas and chat also
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Jan 26, 2015 07:06pm
I always say...its time we let our future generation have more interaction so that they understand each other better. Why should they carry the burden of the past. Future needs a better start. Lets hand them the flag
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Jan 26, 2015 07:16pm
@Iqbal
Stop fighting ??
That's how they get their votes.
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Jan 26, 2015 07:17pm
Only for a few hours. Then back to normal.
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Jan 26, 2015 07:25pm
Very nice and welcome... Military Chief of both countries should start interacting with each and establish friendship. It should begin with personal visits. This would be a milestone. As an ordinary citizen,it pains to see ,we brothers fighting each other and alleging all sort of things against each other. Once military and people contact is normalized,automatically other mutual differences would get sorted out peacefully. Let us all pray and wish for friendship and peace so that we both can share joy and prosperity...
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Jan 26, 2015 07:35pm
Now don't go back to shooting at each other please!
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Jan 26, 2015 07:40pm
What's Modies next move? I'm not a pessimist but cannot help but wonder!
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Jan 26, 2015 07:40pm
@Silent Majority There is only the Pakistani flag. It is the Pakistani side of the border which is visible in background. The Indian flag is on the side from which the picture has been clicked so it is not to be seen here.
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Jan 26, 2015 07:42pm
Nice gesture.:)
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Jan 26, 2015 07:47pm
Hats off to india
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Jan 26, 2015 07:50pm
This is how brothers behave. India and Pakistan are the sons of the same soil and share the same ancestors. The history of Pakistan starts much before Md. Bin quasim.
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Jan 26, 2015 07:57pm
you can't even tell who is Pakistani and who is Indian. I tell you, these guys don't get along in their own countries but the moment they go somewhere else, they realize that they have a lot in common with their neighbors.
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Jan 26, 2015 08:00pm
Should have thrown those sweets back at them. They are continuously killing our soldiers and civilians at the border ever since Modi came unto power.
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Jan 26, 2015 08:08pm
Good to share something other than bullets.
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Jan 26, 2015 08:10pm
Good news after a very long time. We need news like this to build our hopes for peace in the region
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Jan 26, 2015 08:16pm
This should be a normal practice b/w two neighbors .
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Jan 26, 2015 08:19pm
Its time we treated each other with love and respect, there is nothing to lose but perhaps gain real a friend. Hatred or fighting with each other wont solve any problems for either side. So let's enjoy life together and live in piece and help each other to prosper. After all none of us in the position of packing up the bags and "relocating" the lands else where!!.
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Jan 26, 2015 08:31pm
@Sunil great suggestion. Why not
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Jan 26, 2015 08:37pm
Please exchange sweets and not bullets. Thank you - citizens of India & Pakitan
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Jan 26, 2015 09:01pm
We accept Indian’s sweets with respect
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Jan 26, 2015 09:03pm
Good gestures!!
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Jan 26, 2015 09:03pm
Sunil thumbs up for ur comment
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Jan 26, 2015 09:06pm
I say no need to exchange sweets as long as you dont exchange fire. No idea swinging from one extreme to another. Just be peaceful.
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Jan 26, 2015 09:18pm
Very happy to see the both side happy.
All the problems can be sorted out from sweets.
God bless the both nations.
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Jan 26, 2015 09:34pm
@Tariq, Lahore This is not Modi's move. This tradition is going on for quite some time. For the big bosses on both sides, it is just a part of their exciting game. For the common soldiers and civilians, it is truely exciting and brings hope that one day, we may become like European Union or USA/Canada.
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Jan 26, 2015 09:37pm
No non-state actor should be allowed to spoil this spirit.
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Jan 26, 2015 09:49pm
This is what we need to do.... Love from India
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Jan 26, 2015 10:07pm
Keep it up. Exchange sweets all the times. It is not worth exchanging bullets. We are all human. We are all brothers.
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Jan 26, 2015 10:17pm
After some sweet taste and feeling they will return to fire again. Both should realize that war is not a solution what both nations got from ceasefire violation again and again?
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Jan 26, 2015 10:28pm
very welcome
as long as the hot steam to teach Pakistan a lesson doesnt start flowing from Delhi .. it will be all good
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Jan 26, 2015 10:30pm
Soldiers are honorable people working honestly to earn livelihood for their respective families.Let there be peace on borders and happiness in their families.
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Jan 26, 2015 10:59pm
Lets do it every day.
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Jan 26, 2015 11:14pm
@MMM That's what I would like to believe. However, I do not think our politicians' on both side of the divide have the 'vision' nor the desire to be statesmen of that caliber.
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Jan 26, 2015 11:15pm
90% of Pakistanis and Indians want to have good relationships and wish to see India and Pakistan as twin country . Only those 10% who don't want India and Pakistan to be good friend and neighbor win over against wish of 90%. Hey 90% well wishers of India and Pakistan , you need to empower over these 10% ill -minded people and crush them.
This is a thumb rule and very much known & true fact
1. India cant be a developed/great nation without having Pakistan as a friendly neighbor
r and developed country
2. At same time Pakistan cant enter developed world without having a India as friendly neighbor.
Both Pakistan and India need to understand this and work for betterment of their citizen ..
Thank you.
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Jan 26, 2015 11:23pm
Classic love hate relationship
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Jan 26, 2015 11:25pm
Wow - even comments are too friendly from both sides here - both sides are emotional - love and hate flips like coin tossing :)
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Jan 26, 2015 11:33pm
There will always be that "thin line" there no matter what !!!
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Jan 26, 2015 11:39pm
Show off for now but firing may start any minute after Mr. Obama left India.
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Jan 26, 2015 11:41pm
On a lighter note first i misread that they exchanged firing then read sweet. anyone bottom line is no side ate those sweets with a suspicion of poisoning .
I feel they should stay calm and united to fight against extremism and fight for poverty.
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Jan 26, 2015 11:43pm
Ah !.......the power of Obama.
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Jan 27, 2015 12:00am
Exchanging sweets and fire at the same time! Is some sort of hand and glove game?
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Jan 27, 2015 12:28am
but be careful....
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Jan 27, 2015 12:57am
Now this the way we need to proceed forward for a better and bright future. Only then every party will be civilised.
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Jan 27, 2015 12:57am
@Sunil @Nasir: Great comments! We need to continue with people to people contacts. Almost 70 years of enmity has cost South Asia so much in terms of progress, lives, and opportunity. Despite every negative news and rabid right wingers and idiot lefties on both sides, I am optimistic about the future. The Indus Civilazation is ancient. Nations are a relatively new contruct, religious divisiveness is newer still. Hoping that sense prevails over "jazba" and "gurbat".
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Jan 27, 2015 01:05am
This is the kind of news we love to hear more often .......
Our Pakistan Friends ..... love us or hate us ...you can't wish us away ..neither can we.... it was really sad that India & Pakistan did not share Gifts & Sweets this Eid because of tensions at LOC. .... hope & pray that it never happens again ........ good luck to you ......
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Jan 27, 2015 01:29am
Next time the two want to fight, they can just fire sweets over each other. The one who throws more sweets wins...
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Jan 27, 2015 01:48am
Hope this happens at the political level too, someday. Despite politicians and religious leaders on either side painting dirty pictures of Pakistan to Indians and of India to Pakistanis, we have lot more in common than we have with the Americans or the Chinese. Serious food for thought is needed at all levels, as some extremist elements, out of hatred, shamelessly kills the innocent people on either sides.
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Jan 27, 2015 01:51am
Looking at their faces, they all look exactly the same. looking at their faces.
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Jan 27, 2015 01:55am
@Sunil, Just beacause the leadership of both India and Pakistan is low grade devoid of statesmanship.
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Jan 27, 2015 02:01am
When I read "Pakistani, Indian troops exchange" I cringed not again, but when I read "sweets", I exhaled and relaxed. Can we please build on this and not waste tax payer money on war? There are enough infrastructure projects starved of funding. During republic day we saw two war widows receiving an Ashok Chakra for gallantry shown by their husbands. One of them was the father of a three year old child. I am sure there are such tales in Pakistan as well. Do we as a society think of the lives of military families after their loss?
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Jan 27, 2015 02:09am
@Seedoo "I woule love to see he LOC dissappear one day and people could just move about without any fear. I hope it happens in my life time. BTW, why just limit to sweets, lets exchange samosas and chat also"
Great idea!!! Waiting for the day when it will rain sweets, samosas and chat on the LOC. Time to retire the guns and mortars (unless they want to shoot sweets and samosas...
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Jan 27, 2015 02:31am
Very good..we need to exchange more sweets rather than bullets n taking innocent lives. more people to people contact needed to reduce mistrust.
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Jan 27, 2015 02:41am
We should celebrate this day every day if this can stop exchange of bullet and filled out heart with sweetness.
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Jan 27, 2015 02:47am
Except the Singh-saab, I am unable to identify in the picture, who is Indian and who is Pakistani. They look so similar, just like brothers....same ethnicity, same genes, same dna....but artificially separated by man-made religion....
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Jan 27, 2015 03:01am
well done Pak.... make them understand we like peace if they like it.
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Jan 27, 2015 03:01am
well done Pak Army you are always first and pride for us......... may God guide your through and bring you on top of all evil nexus.
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Jan 27, 2015 04:16am
So far there are 59 comments almost all positive. The thing we should note is that it will take couple folks to attack the other side, and then rest of us will go back to our sides and this thread will devolve.
I say this to point out the power that 5-10% hardliners have over the other 90%. That is the story of India-Pakistan relations for the past 60 years as well. We have found the enemy and it the not the other side, but the 10% within us.
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Jan 27, 2015 04:24am
Can't we all just get along!
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Jan 27, 2015 04:55am
Really it it is like brothers.Go ahead and be a famiy not enemy.It is wonderful news which flash all over world to show that we are brothers.Dont misguide in our family matter.
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Jan 27, 2015 05:26am
A ray of hope.Appreciatable.
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Jan 27, 2015 05:31am
@Parvez The tradition has been going on for many many years now. got nothing to do with Obama.
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Jan 27, 2015 06:05am
It is about time.
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Jan 27, 2015 06:20am
India and Pakistan should become one country like they were before 1947,
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Jan 27, 2015 07:42am
For a moment I read Pakistan Indian soldier exchange firing....woah, wait! Its sweets :)
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Jan 27, 2015 07:47am
It is a big dream of mine to see strong friendly relations with the people of India. Alas, so much in common but so far away.
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Jan 27, 2015 07:57am
The most influential forces of evils and of the traders of hate and hostility who been making their fortune on dead bodies of their countrymen and neighbors must have been extremely sad to see great soldiers and jawans exchanging sweets instead of bullets and bombs. But this frindly gesture of sharing sweets and good wishes has extremely pleased more than 90 percent peace loving people of India and Pakistan. Long live friendship of both the Nation and sincere best wishes for each others.
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Jan 27, 2015 08:35pm
@Sunil
There is only one issue; let Kashmiris use their right of self determination, whatever they want so that all of us can live with peace.
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