Homage to Quaid: Swat scouts enthrall audience

Scouts staged a show with speeches, skits, national as well as folk songs to entertain the audience.

SWAT: Swat Scouts Open Group (SSOG) celebrated father of the nation’s birthday with splendor, staging a show at the scouts’ auditorium in Mingora on Saturday night.

The function was attended by a large number of scouts, the local elite and mediapersons.

The scouts delivered speeches and presented skits, national as well as folk songs to entertain the audience.

The group leader of SSOG Akhtar Ali said that as Quaid-i-Azam was the Chief Scout of Pakistan, we regularly celebrate his birthday except the three years of insurgency. We organise different activities on this occasion to recall the great leader of the South Asian Subcontinent in high spirits.

The performance of the scouts, especially those renditions that expressed unity among all Pakistanis, was applauded by the audience.

Policeman Siyab Khan told The Express Tribune, “This is real mental refreshment. Today these scouts made us laugh and reacquainted us with our great cultural heritage. They also presented the views of our great leader in the form of skits, tableaus and speeches. Three years of stress and boredom ended today because of their performance.”

Local journalist Mahmood Rafique Babu said that we should remember our heroes through such healthy activities and they should be encouraged and organized on a regular basis.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 27^th, 2010.