Pakistan Day observed across Sindh

The people in Sindh marked the Pakistan Resolution Day with national fervour on Wednesday taking out rallies, organizing seminars and debates to express their affinity for the country.

The Commissioner Hyderabad Nadeemur Rehman Memon led a rally from Shahbaz Building to the General Post Office. Teachers and students of several schools, government officials and a cross-section of the civil society took part in the rally.

"Our elders passed a resolution on this day 82 years ago to establish a homeland for Muslims of South Asia," the commissioner said while addressing the participants. Hyderabad DIG Syed Peer Muhammad Shah said let us revive the vow of loyalty and sacrifice for the country. He praised the leaders of the Pakistan movement whose relentless struggle resulted in the creation of Pakistan.

However, as the nation celebrated the day Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (HESCO) continued the unrelenting cycle of the power outages. Hyderabad Small Chamber of Trade and Industry in a statement decried that HESCO did not bother to spare its consumers even on the national day.

"On this day the people sit in front of the televisions sets to watch the day related activities. But HESCO repeatedly kept suspending the power supply since the morning," the chamber's president Muhammad Altaf Memon lamented. Meanwhile, a similar rally was taken out in Larkana.

The speakers hailed the freedom leaders and presented them as role models to the youth. District Education Officer Akhtar Hussain Korejo said those leaders realized that independence from the clutches of ruling elite of then India was equally important to getting freedom from the British Empire. "We should cherish our freedom, because we all know what is happening with the Muslims in Kashmir and Palestine," he observed.

Separately, a group of around five dozen workers of nationalist political parties announced that they are voluntarily shunning the nationalist politics and joining mainstream politics. Asif Ali Chandio, Ahmed Soomro and other workers told a press conference in Larkana that some nationalist political parties are manipulating youth in Sindh for their ulterior motives.

The chief minister's special assistant Arsalan Islam Shaikh and Commissioner Ghulam Mustafa Phul led a walk in Sukkur to mark the day. Hundreds of other rallies were held in Nawabshah, Mirpurkhas, Tharparkar, Badin, Ghotki, Shikarpur, Thatta and other districts of Sindh. The educational institutions in Sindh also marked the day.