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BORDER NEWS * Pakistan-India - Porters pack up for last time on the frontier amidst
On either side of the India-Pakistan border in the Punjab, teams of porters are involved in an unnecessary, pointless toil that highlights the fraught relations that have existed between the two countriesAttari,Pakistan -The Belfast Telegraph (Belfast,UK), by Andrew Buncombe -August 23, 2007: -- It is one of the most remarkable and fascinating human spectacles you are likely to witness - so long as you are not taking part... With trucks banned from the immediate area, Pakistani porters wearing orange tunics unload goods lorries by hand, hurl the heavy sacks on to their heads or shoulders and stagger towards the border gate. There they hand their loads to the outstretched arms of Indian porters wearing blue tunics who bundle the sacks on to their shoulders and struggle back towards another truck and stack it with the cargo... But this daily circus is about to end. Officials from the two countries agreed on Monday that from 1 October, goods trucks will be allowed to cross the border. The porters will keep their jobs but will no longer have to walk across no-man's land... (Picture: horizonsunlimited: Pakistan's border porters)
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