New border depot for Pakistan, India

AP Published April 23, 2012
An Indian worker carries a sack of tea at a tea factory in Amritsar, India. – AP Photo.
An Indian worker carries a sack of tea at a tea factory in Amritsar, India. – AP Photo.
Indian laborers unload boxes of dry fruit, from a Pakistani truck, imported from Pakistan at the recently inaugurated Integrated Check Post, a customs depot, at Attari near Amritsar, India. – AP Photo.
Indian laborers unload boxes of dry fruit, from a Pakistani truck, imported from Pakistan at the recently inaugurated Integrated Check Post, a customs depot, at Attari near Amritsar, India. – AP Photo.
Indian and Pakistani flags are lowered during a daily retreat ceremony at the Joint Check Post at Wagah near Amritsar, India. – AP Photo.
Indian and Pakistani flags are lowered during a daily retreat ceremony at the Joint Check Post at Wagah near Amritsar, India. – AP Photo.
A Pakistani truck driver gestures while waiting for custom clearance at the recently inaugurated Integrated Check Post, a customs depot, at Attari near Amritsar, India. –AP Photo.
A Pakistani truck driver gestures while waiting for custom clearance at the recently inaugurated Integrated Check Post, a customs depot, at Attari near Amritsar, India. –AP Photo.
A Pakistani truck driver looks from the window of his truck while waiting for custom clearance at the recently inaugurated Integrated Check Post, a customs depot, at Attari near Amritsar, India. – AP Photo.
A Pakistani truck driver looks from the window of his truck while waiting for custom clearance at the recently inaugurated Integrated Check Post, a customs depot, at Attari near Amritsar, India. – AP Photo.
Pakistani trucks loaded with gypsum wait for signal from Indian customs before crossing into India at the recently inaugurated Integrated Check Post, a customs depot, at Attari near Amritsar, India. – AP Photo.
Pakistani trucks loaded with gypsum wait for signal from Indian customs before crossing into India at the recently inaugurated Integrated Check Post, a customs depot, at Attari near Amritsar, India. – AP Photo.

In a cavernous warehouse in north India, workers grade and blend mounds of tea for shipping to Dubai, Europe, Singapore - just about anywhere around the globe, except for the country right next door, Pakistan.

Decades of conflict have decimated trade between the South Asian neighbours. Now, with peace efforts between both the countries stalled, officials are hoping that trade could lead the way to easing tensions.

They have promised to throw open their economies to each other by the end of the year and have already liberalized some commercial ties. A new border depot for trade was inaugurated recently. – Photos and text by AP.

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