Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif Friday formed a committee tasked with the formulation of recommendations to ensure that the Independence Day was celebrated in the country in a way to rejuvenate the true and indomitable spirit of nationalism.
According to a PM House statement, the Prime Minister had observed that Independence Day celebrations have been largely relegated to a routine, mundane and rather perfunctory affair. In fact this day was actually an occasion to rejuvenate the true and indomitable spirit of nationalism that drove the struggle for Independence and culminated in the creation of Pakistan, above all parochial considerations of ethnicity, region, language and sect, he added.
The Prime Minister urged that it was high time that we shifted the focus from celebration back to the reason for this celebration. Keeping this in view, the Prime Minister has constituted the committee that would formulate the recommendations, in consultation with the provincial and regional governments, for the upcoming Independence Day.
Headed by Chairman PTV Atta-ul-Haq Qasmi as Convenor, the committee would comprise Chairperson, Benazir Income Support Programme Marvi Memon, MNAs Shaista Pervaiz Malik and Muhammad Tallal Chaudhry, Secretary Climate Change Division Abu Ahmed Akif, Secretary, Information and Broadcasting Division and Chief Secretaries of all Provinces and Administrative Regions while Secretary, Cabinet Division would act as secretary of the committee.
The committee would be responsible for proposing events leading up to, on, and following 14th August 2016, by the federal, provincial and regional governments those are meaningful in the sense that they rekindled and revitalise the spirit of national unity and cohesion. The events should illustrate the wisdom and sagacity of national heroes in their unyielding resolve and selfless perseverance for Pakistan, sensitise country's youth of the centrality of the struggle for Pakistan in our history, our present; and our future.
The committee would help elucidate how myopic prejudices based on ethnicity, language; region and sect have destroyed, and would continue to destroy, great nations besides reminding the nation of the sacrifices its forefathers made to carve out for it an independent homeland, in the face of all impossibility, so that it could live a life of freedom and honour.
The committee would recommend as how to vividly bring out the significance of Pakistan to our and our children's, liberty, dignity and identity; and most of all, that clearly express the national resolve for a peaceful, progressive and developed Pakistan. The body would submit its recommendations by April 30, 2016.
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