CHANDIGARH: On Pakistan's Independence Day, the neighbouring country will hoist the highest flag in its territory on the Wagha-Attari border and it's touted to be fifty feet higher than the Indian tricolour. Reports also suggest that the tower on which the flag would be hoisted has been equipped with high-resolution cameras which can spy into the Indian territory.
Sources in intelligence agencies said that the 400-feet tower erected by Pakistan was sponsored by China at a cost of Rs 7 crore. On its top, the high-resolution cameras can not only zoom into Attari in India, but also the Khasas Cantonment of the Indian army near Amritsar, they added.
The tower was reportedly built in such a way that around a dozen Pakistani soldiers could stand on it and keep a vigil on the Indian territory.
Sources in the BSF said that they raised an objection in this regard with the Pakistani Rangers and also informed their superiors.
When the 350-feet high tri-colour was hoisted at Attari by the-then Punjab local bodies minister and senior BJP leader Anil Joshi, in March this year, the Pakistan Rangers had conveyed their objection to BSF over the installation of the flag close to the border calling it a violation of international treaties.
They had also alleged that cameras were fit by Indian authorities on the flag pole.
The Amritsar Improvement Trust had spent Rs 3.43 crore on erecting the highest flag in India. The flag tore four times due to the intensity of high-velocity winds. Each flag costs Rs 1.25 lakh and weighs around 100 kg. The Indian flag could be seen from Lahore in Pakistan once it flutters on the pole.