Father's Day celebrated

Father's Day was celebrated across the country on Sunday as a mark of appreciation for fathers who offer unconditional love and affection to their children. The children thanked the fathers for their life long contribution in bringing them up.
Father's Day is one of the special days when people irrespective of their ages honour their fathers for playing crucial role in their development as dignified citizens.
Father's Day in Pakistan might not be celebrated at a larger scale as in the rest of the world but the spirits are catching up. The electronic media widely projecting the importance of the day through presenting different plays and discussion programmes.
The day was also celebrated in the schools where students through different means convey their feelings to their fathers. "Father's Day is a day of commemoration and celebration of dad. It is a day to not only honour our fathers, but all men who have acted as a father figure in life whether as stepfathers, uncles, grandfathers, or big brothers," said a student.
Father's day provides opportunity not only to celebrate the existence of the relation of father but also thank and cherish for all the best in the world, he added.
Father's day comes on every third Sunday of June and it is that one time when people can freely celebrate this sweet relationship. Father's day celebrations are not just to mark father's love for their children but it is a start and a promise that the rest of the year would hopefully be filled with more love and understanding. Father's day started by a woman named Sonora Smart Dodd from Spokane, Washington, who thought of the idea for Father's day while listening to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909.
In the West, father's day celebrations are marked with number of colourful activities for the children to enjoy with their fathers. While in Pakistan, father's day is still in its early stage and every year the excitement is building up and the awareness about father's day is spreading.
Most countries of world celebrate Father's Day at different dates depending on the origin. But father's day in Pakistan is celebrated on the third Sunday of June.