Punjab

7-day grand celebration ‘I am Pakistan’ finalised

The event will include musical shows, rallies, debating competitions, dress shows, poetry readings and fireworks

Our Correspondent August 07, 2016

The DCO said as part of the event, a national songs competition on will be held at Shah Shamas Park, a pictorial competition on August 8 and a debating competition among students of various schools and colleges will be held on August 10. PHOTO: APP

MULTAN: The district government has finalised a seven-day grand celebration titled ‘I am Pakistan’ to celebrate Independence Day. It will go on from August 8 to August 14. The plan was discussed at the District Coordination Office in Multan on Sunday.

The opening ceremony will be held at Damdama located in Fort Qasim garden. Several heroes of the Pakistan Movement and the families and children of martyrs will be the guests of honour at the occasion.

DCO Nadir Chattha presided over the meeting. Multan Development Authority Additional Director General Altaf Hussain Sarayo and Zahid Hussain Gardezi also attended the meeting.

Addressing the meeting, Chattha said that this kind of grand celebration on Independence Day was the first-ever to be organised by the district government in the history of Multan. The event will include musical shows, rallies, debating competitions, dress shows, poetry readings and fireworks. People from all walks of life will be able to participate, he added. Chattha also constituted committees comprising district officials and tasked them with giving the final shape to all preparations and formally start the celebration on Monday. The DCO said as part of the event, a national songs competition on will be held at Shah Shamas Park, a pictorial competition on August 8 and a debating competition among students of various schools and colleges will be held on August 10.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 8^th, 2016.

COMMENTS (1)

Fahad Khan | 8 years ago | Reply Pakistani media's role in spreading patriotism The Pakistani media is celebrating August with patriotic fervour this year. Many channels like Geo, Dawn etc. are inviting Pakistanis to share pictures to show their preparations for Independence Day and are getting tremendous response to this campaign. It is so refreshing to see people's national pride despite the fact that they are complaining about their country year round. Our media should not restrict patriotic programming to August but we should have programmes like talk shows and dramas, and even animated shows for children in which we should tell the story of Pakistan - pre- post-Partition.

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