Pakistan Day: No tanks or planes, but culture galore
The day’s celebrations will begin with a bicycle rally planned by the Capital Development Authority. PHOTO: FILE
The capital will have its fair share of Pakistan Day celebrations on March 23, but much like the past several years, there will be no military parades or air shows.
The Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) will host several events on Sunday to commemorate the passing of the Lahore Resolution on March 23, 1940.
The resolution’s passage is considered a landmark event in the movement for creation of a separate homeland for Muslims, which bore fruit in August 1947.
The day’s celebrations will begin with a bicycle rally planned by the Capital Development Authority (CDA).
The rally will start at 9:45am from Fatima Jinnah Park’s Bolan Gate — which faces Sector F-10 — and will conclude at the same point at 12:30pm.
An ongoing exhibition of paintings, portraits and belongings of the country’s founding father Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah will be open for public on Sunday from 10am to 5pm.
The movie “Jinnah” will also be screened at the PNCA at 10am.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 23rd, 2014.