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Pakistan can’t be defeated until mothers who sacrifice their sons are present: COAS

A day is not a day without mother, says Maryam Nawaz on Mother's Day

News Desk May 12, 2019

I salute to the mothers whose sacrifices helped the country to achieve prosperity, says General Qamar. PHOTO: ISPR/FILE

Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa paid tribute to mothers of martyrs on Mother's Day, saying "no power can defeat Pakistan until the mothers who sacrifice their sons for the homeland are present".

"I salute to the mothers whose sacrifices helped the country to achieve prosperity," said the army chief during a ceremony on Sunday.

The COAS honoured the nation's military mothers for their unwavering dedication and support to strengthen the entire nation.

#ماں_تجھے_سلام #HappyMothersDay “Salute to brave mothers of our brave martyrs” Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa honored the nation's military mothers for their unwavering dedication and support strengthens entire nation https://t.co/18kimuyQk2
Happy Mother pic.twitter.com/wDQGxWQKVy
— Radio Pakistan (@RadioPakistan) May 12, 2019

Moreover, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari posted picture of her slain mother and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto on the microblogging website, Twitter, and wished on Mother's Day saying: “Your heaven lies under the feet of your mother.”

“Your Heaven lies under the feet of your mother.” Happy #MothersDay to all the mama’s out there. pic.twitter.com/LORyQqs8ZG
— BilawalBhuttoZardari (@BBhuttoZardari) May 12, 2019

Maryam Nawaz, vice president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), expressed her love in a poetic expression for her late mother and former three-time first lady Kulsoom Nawaz.

"Is there a day without mother, a day isn't a day without mother", she wrote on her Twitter handle.

بھلا ماں کا بھی کوئی دن ہوتا ہے؟
ماں کے بغیر تو کوئی دن، دن نہیں ہوتا !#MothersDaySpecial pic.twitter.com/7vuSrl1bnn
— Maryam Nawaz Sharif (@MaryamNSharif) May 11, 2019

Besides politicians and army chief people belonging to showbiz, civil society and other walks of life also expressed their love for mothers.

International Mother’s Day is being celebrated across the country as elsewhere in the world on the second Sunday of May.