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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Ganda Singh Wala
| native_name = {{Nastaliq|گنڈا سِنگھ والا}}
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| settlement_type = village
| image_skyline = Ganda Singh border kasur.jpg
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| image_caption = Flag lowering ceremony in Ganda Singh Wala near, Lahore City
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Punjab, Pakistan
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| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{flag|Pakistan}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[Administrative units of Pakistan|Province]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of Pakistan|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Kasur District|Kasur]]
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'''Ganda Singh Wala''' ([[Punjabi language|Punjabi]]/{{lang-ur|{{Nastaliq|گنڈا سنگھ والا}}}}) is a [[village]], just 58 km from [[Lahore|Lahore City]] in [[Kasur District]] in the [[Punjab (Pakistan)|Punjab]], [[Pakistan]]. Until 1986, it served as the main border crossing between [[Pakistan]] and [[India]].<ref>[https://kasur.punjab.gov.pk/important_places Important Places] Kasur District, Official District website. Retrieved 24 October 2019</ref> The [[Sutlej River]] flows by Ganda Singh Wala, and the area is prone to flooding.<ref>[http://iahs.info/redbooks/a281/iahs_281_090.pdf Shaukati Ali Awan ''Flood forecasting and management in Pakistan'']</ref>

The village is now a 45-minute drive from Lahore after the construction of the new [[Lahore]]-[[Firozpur]] road. Nearby Burj Naamdaar village is noted for the cultivation of [[bamboo]].{{citation needed|date=September 2012}}

==Etymology==

The village was named after [[Ganda Singh Datt]]. It lies on the border with [[Punjab (India)|Eastern Punjab]], [[India]]. The Pakistani village, which was named after a Sikh man, lies opposite the Indian village of [[Hussainiwala]], which in turn was named after a Muslim man.

==India Pakistan Border ==

===Border crossing ===
The border crossing is now closed. In the 1960s and 1970s, it was the principal road crossing between India and Pakistan,<ref>[http://www.paulmason.info/viarishikesh/viarishikeshch16.htm Paul Mason (2006) ''Via Rishikesh'': an account of hitchhiking to India in 1970]</ref> but was replaced by the border crossing at [[Wagah]], a little further north. In 2005 there were proposals to reopen the border,<ref>[http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_8-9-2005_pg5_1 Daily Times, 8 September 2005] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020155420/http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_8-9-2005_pg5_1 |date=20 October 2012 }}</ref> but it remained closed. More recently the Chief Minister of Punjab [[Shahbaz Sharif]] proposed the reopening of the border when he visited [[Attari]] in India.{{citation needed|date=September 2012}}

===Border ceremony ===
Since 1970, a daily 6 pm [[Borders_of_India#Ceremonies|Beating Retreat Border Ceremony]] is jointly held at the border crossing by the military of both nations. It is similar to the [[Wagah-Attari border ceremony|Attari-Wagah border ceremony]].<ref>[http://ferozepur.nic.in/html/indopakborder.html District Ferozepur website: Retreat Ceremony at Husainiwala]</ref> Attendees are seated close by, as compared to Wagah where crowds are kept far apart. Unlike the [[jingoistic]] display at Wagah which draws nationalistic tourists from all over India and Pakistan, the Hussainiwala ceremony is more intimate and attended mostly by local Punjabis on either side of the border. As a result, the atmosphere is not as tense, and Indian and Pakistani attendees often smile and wave to one another.

== See also ==
* [[Wagah-Attari border ceremony|Attari-Wagah border crossing]]
* [[Hussainiwala#Ceremony|Hussainiwala-Ganda Singh Wala border crossing]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZR-eLVYo6s Ceremony at the Ganda Singh Wala India-Pakistan border]

{{Neighbourhoods of Kasur}}

[[Category:Populated places in Kasur District]]
[[Category:India–Pakistan border crossings]]

{{Kasur-geo-stub}}

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Ajay Kumar at 05:18, 28 September 2023