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Ganda Singh Wala is a village in Kasur District

Kasur District

Kasur District or Qasur District is one of the districts in the province of Punjab, Pakistan It came into existence on 1 July 1976. Earlier it was part of Lahore District....

 in the West Punjab

Punjab (Pakistan)

Punjab is the most populous province of Pakistan, with approximately 45% of the country's total population. Forming most of the Punjab region, the province is bordered by Kashmir to the north-east, the Indian states of Punjab and Rajasthan to the east, the Pakistani province of Sindh to the...

 (Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

). The village was named after the soldier Ganda Singh Datt

Ganda Singh Datt

About=Sardar Bahadur Risaldar Major Ganda Singh Datt was a decorated soldier in the British Indian Army, who served in the 19th Bengal Lancers also known as Fane's Horse....

(1830-1903). It lies on the border with Eastern Punjab

Punjab (India)

Punjab ) is a state in the northwest of the Republic of India, forming part of the larger Punjab region. The state is bordered by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the east, Haryana to the south and southeast and Rajasthan to the southwest as well as the Pakistani province of Punjab to the...

 (India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

), opposite the Eastern Punjab's village of Hussainiwala

Hussainiwala

Hussainiwala is a village in Ferozepur district in Punjab state, India. It lies near the banks of the Sutlej river. The village is on the border with Pakistan, opposite the Pakistani village of Ganda Singh Wala...

, near Firozpur

Firozpur

Firozpur is a city on the banks of the Sutlej River in Firozpur District, Punjab, India, founded by Sultan Firoz Shah Tughlaq , a Muslim ruler of the Tughlaq Dynasty who reigned over the Sultanate of Delhi from 1351 to 1388.The Manj Rajputs say the town was named after their chief, a Rajput of...

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The border crossing is now closed. In the 1960s and 1970s it was the principal road crossing between India and Pakistan, but was replaced by the border crossing at Wagah

Wagah

Wagah is the only road border crossing between Pakistan and India , and lies on the Grand Trunk Road between the cities of Lahore, Pakistan and Amritsar, India. Wagah itself is a village through which the controversial Radcliffe Line was drawn. The village was divided by independence in 1947...

, a little further north. In 2005 there were proposals to reopen the border, but it remained closed.

Since 1970 there has been a daily Retreat Ceremony at the border crossing, similar to the Wagah border ceremony

Wagah border ceremony

The Wagah border closing 'lowering of the flags' ceremony was a daily military practice that the security forces of India and Pakistan have followed since 1959...

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The Sutlej River flows by Ganda Singh Wala, and the area is prone to flooding.