THE BORDER Security Force (BSF) unfurled the Tricolour on a 131-foot-high flag put up alongside the India-Pakistan border on the event of Republic Day – the tallest ever alongside the zero line in Jammu and Kashmir.
The 12×8 foot flag on the “heritage” Octroi Border Outpost in Suchetgarh sector of R S Pura sub-division shall be seen so far as Pakistan’s Sialkot city, practically 11 km throughout the International Border.
BSF IG N S Jamwal, who unfurled the flag, stated the Tricolour would function a landmark for Jammu, including that the BSF will hold it flying in any respect prices.
Pakistan Rangers had initially objected to the erection of such a excessive flag put up inside 50 metres from the zero line, suspecting that the Indian facet was putting in cameras to maintain vigil of their space.
However, they relented after being informed that it was being erected for unfurling the Tricolour on Republic Day.
BSF’s Octroi Border Outpost has drawn its identify from an octroi assortment level in Suchetgarh village. This is the place the erstwhile Indian princely state of Jammu and Kashmir used to gather octroi from merchants for motion of products between Jammu and Sialkote space of then undivided Punjab.
