Attari, also spelled Atari, is a village of Amritsar district in the Punjab state of India, 3 km from the Indo-Pakistani border at Wagah.

Later a famous local ascetic named Mool Dass pointed the brothers towards a large mound ("theh" in Punjabi), and asked them to establish a new village.

Later on they heard the gallantry and braveness of the tough and hardriding Majha Sikhs, who were fighting guerrilla warfare against the crumbling Lahore-based Mughal authorities.

[citation needed] The Sikhs would attack and plunder Mughal treasures and seize goods such as weapons and horses.

[citation needed] From 1802 to 1803, Sardar Nihal Singh (died 1818) of Attari family would loot and plunder the treasures of Maharaja Ranjit Singh of Lahore, In retaliation of the Maharaja, invading and putting an end to the once-dominant Bhangi Sikh Misl in the Majha Region.

Sardar Sham Singh Attari (1785–1846), from this family was the great fallen hero of the Battle of Sabhraon 10 February 1846, of First Anglo Sikh Wars.

After the Integrated Check Post (ICP) was opened at Attari on 13 April 2012 to improve road trade, around 500 trucks have been crossing the border every day.

The Trans-Asian Railway will enable containers from Singapore, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand and Korea to travel over land by train to Europe.