{"id":73456,"date":"2025-08-15T09:10:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T00:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/15\/india-pakistan-flagpole-flag-war-attari-wagah-border-crossing-ceremony"},"modified":"2025-08-15T09:10:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T00:10:22","slug":"india-and-pakistan-tensions-spill-over-into-contest-over-whose-flagpole-is-bigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73456","title":{"rendered":"India and Pakistan tensions spill over into contest over whose flagpole is bigger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nationalist rivalries are on show at border crossing where soldiers in elaborate uniforms perform flag ceremonies each night<\/p>\n<p>At a remote, monsoon-soaked border checkpoint, Indian soldiers will mark Independence Day by raising the country\u2019s tricolour on a mast that towers above a Pakistani flag flying just across the frontier \u2013 part of an ongoing vertical duel in South Asia\u2019s fraught politics.<\/p>\n<p>Call it flag warfare: a contest not of weapons but of height, waged by two nuclear-armed neighbours that only three months ago fought a four-day battle which threatened to escalate into full-scale war.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/15\/india-pakistan-flagpole-flag-war-attari-wagah-border-crossing-ceremony\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationalist rivalries are on show at border crossing where soldiers in elaborate uniforms perform flag ceremonies each nightAt a remote, monsoon-soaked border checkpoint, Indian soldiers will mark Independence Day by raising the country\u2019s tricolour on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4603,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,60,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73457,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73456\/revisions\/73457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}