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Indian and Pak intelligence agencies both picked up plans for an imminent strike on their Wagah land border ahead of a suicide kaboom
that killed 57 people on Sunday, and heightened security possibly averted a more devastating attack. Pak police on Monday said they had recovered a "huge" cache of weapons and explosives near the border, where thousands of Indians and Paks gather at dusk every day to watch a flamboyant ritual parade by their security forces.Police spokeswoman Nabeela Ghazanfar said the latest corpse count was 57 after the bomber detonated explosives in a car park 500 meters (yards) from the border gates and parade ground, just as hundreds of spectators were returning from the ceremony. Pak and Indian agents, who do not share intelligence, gave conflicting accounts of whether the bomber's true intention was to cause casualties on the Indian side of the border and stir up tensions between the nuclear-armed nations.
"It appears the bomber wanted to target ground zero where Pakistain and India border officials stand together to perform the flag ceremony but he could not enter due to tight security on the last gate," a Pak intelligence official told Rooters. "Had he managed to reach the place, there would have been the worst scenario at both sides." If successful, such an attack would likely have severely tested ties between India and Pakistain, already frayed after weeks of shelling further along the border killed 17 people in October.