Pakistan National Day: Pakistani Rangers offer sweets to BSF personnel
Pakistan National Day: Pakistani Rangers offer sweets to BSF personnel
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistanis are celebrating the National Day with a military parade that is showcasing short- and long-range missiles, tanks, jets, drones and other hardware.

  Meanwhile, In Punjab Pakistani Rangers offered sweets to BSF personnel at Attari Wagah Border on Pakistan National Day.

Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain in the occasion promised to defeat militants who have killed thousands of people in attacks over the past 10 years.

As part of security measures for Friday’s parade in Islamabad, authorities suspended mobile phone services. Many homemade bomb attacks have been triggered remotely using phone devices.

Hussain will also honor 141 Pakistanis and foreigners with civilian awards. This year’s recipients include Cuba’s Fidel Castro for the work of Cuban doctors during Pakistan’s 2005 earthquake that claimed life of 75,000 people.

Pakistan’s right activist Asma Jahangir will also receive the top civilian award. She is known for her criticism of the military’s interference in civilian affairs.

An official diplomatic reception by the UAE embassy will be held in Abu Dhabi on March 21 at 7.30pm. Held at the Intercontinental Hotel, Abu Dhabi, the event will permit hundreds of community members to pay tribute to Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the father of the Pakistan nation.

Pakistan Association Dubai (PAD) will organize a four-day festival ‘Shukriya Pakistan’ (Thank you Pakistan) on its premises in Dubai.

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