PAKISTAN INTERIOR MINISTER MOINUDDIN HAIDER PRESENTS SWEETS TO THE INDIAN BORDER GUARD MILITARY ..., 2001-08-30 (photo)

PAKISTAN INTERIOR MINISTER MOINUDDIN HAIDER PRESENTS SWEETS TO THE INDIAN BORDER GUARD MILITARY OFFICER AT WAGAH IN LAHORE. Pakistani Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider (L) presents sweets to the Indian Border Security Forces officer Colonel Vidwa at the Wagah border post between the rival nations at Pakistani side of Wagah border some 20 km to the east of the provincial capital of Punjab AWugust 30, 2001. Haider was at the bordering town of Wagah for the inauguration of Bab-e-Azadi a tribute to the spirit of the millions of Muslims who sacrificed their belongings and their lives for a homeland to commensurate the dawn of an independent Muslim state on the horizon of the world geopraphy on 14 August, 1947. More than half a century after the hasty partition of the Asian subcontinent by departing British colonialists, relations between India and Pakistan are still dogged by hatred, suspicion and misunderstanding. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza