Respect the Pakistan flag

Letter November 15, 2014
Government should act against those who are printing Pakistan flags in a different colour and sell them in the market

KARACHI: The Pakistani flag is a green field with a white crescent moon and star at its centre, and a vertical white strip at the hoist side. The federal government should act against those who are printing Pakistan flags in a different colour and sell them in the market. The colour of the flag is dark green, but one sees flags that are light green, and even red and blue! Furthermore, printers often print additional things on the flag such as the slogans ‘Pakistan Zindabad’, ‘Jashn-e-Azadi Mubarak’ or pictures of the Quaid-e-Azam or Allama Iqbal. This is also against the law, which stipulates that nothing should be written on the Pakistan flag.

I can understand that such slogans and pictures are printed on the national flag as a mark of celebration and remembering those who created Pakistan, but these should be not written on the flag itself.

Ghazanfar Ali Khan

Published in The Express Tribune, November 16th, 2014.

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