India and Pakistan tensions spill over into contest over whose flagpole is bigger

Nationalist rivalries are on show at border crossing where soldiers in elaborate uniforms perform flag ceremonies each nightAt a remote, monsoon-soaked border checkpoint, Indian soldiers will mark Independence Day by raising the countrys tricolour on a mast that towers above a Pakistani flag flying just across the frontier part of an ongoing vertical duel in South Asias fraught politics.Call it flag warfare: a contest not of weapons but of height, waged by two nuclear-armed neighbours that only ...