Guards at India-Pakistan Border Perform Independence Day Ceremony - Men are just awesome.

Pakistan and India border guards take part in a daily ceremony at the Wagah border post as Pakistan celebrates the 75th anniversary of its independence, August 14, 2022. <br> <br>Crowds go wild and soldiers goose-step in a chest-puffing theatrical ritual symbolizing the countries' antipathy after independence, but the display ends with a brisk, brotherly handshake. <br> <br>Several hours before the ceremony, enthusiastic spectators begin trickling into sitting areas on either side of chunky iron gates separating the nuclear-armed Asian rivals at the Attari-Wagah frontier. <br> <br>India and Pakistan, which celebrate 75 years of independence from Britain next week, share deep cultural and linguistic links but their history has been mired in violence and bloodshed. <br> <br> <br>They were partitioned in 1947 into predominantly Hindu India and Muslim-majority Pakistan against the backdrop of communal massacres and the movement of millions of people.