Amritsar – The sourness that had started brewing between Border Security Forced (BSF) and Pakistani Rangers at Wagah Attari Border and came to a front on Eid, has resurfaced on Diwali with BSF having decided not to offer sweets to Pakistani rangers on Diwali, one of a biggest Indian festivals.
According to reports, BSF DIG MF Farooqui said: “It’s central that we will not be offering sweets to Pakistani Rangers on Diwali this year. At present, a family between a dual nations are not cordial, Hence, it will not be appropriate for us to offer them sweets.”
He pronounced a severity was displayed by a Pakistani rangers on Eid by transfer all goodwill gestures.
“This is a pacific border, and it was a rangers who had shown cold vibes during an Indo-Pak Joint Check Post during Attari border. So we (BSF) have motionless not to exchange sweets with them,” he added.
On a doubt that when exchange of sweets will be resumed, Farooqui said, “I can’t contend anything that when this use will resumes on this border. It all depends on shared relations. If it softened in future, we might see the tradition of exchanging sweets happening here as well.”
However, BSF Punjab Frontier IG Ashok Kumar claimed that given there were really few days to a festival, final preference was nonetheless to be taken.
It is, perhaps, for the first time that India is not offering sweets to the neighbouring country on Diwali. The two countries had followed the custom on their Independence Day in August this year.
India has taken clever note of steady ceasefire violations by a Pakistani infantry along a LoC and conflict on Indian residents in Jammu sector.