A race to set up the tallest flagpole seems to be the latest rivalry that India and its neighbour Pakistan have indulged into.

On Thursday, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari, in the presence of Punjab Chief Minister, Bhagwant Mann, inaugurated the tallest Indian flag —flying at a height of 418 feet — on the Indo-Pak border at Attari, Amritsar. Gadkari was in Amritsar on Thursday to inspect the work of national highways.
The Union Minister said that a surveillance system has been fitted atop the flag which will help BSF troops keep track of the activities near the border.

The new flag at Attari, flying at 418 feet, will beat Pakistan’s national flag which is hoisted at 400 feet on the other side of the Zero Line. The earlier Indian flag at Attari flew at a height of 360 feet.