RECOREDR REPORT

SIALKOT: Independence Day will be celebrated with usual zeal on August 14, in Sialkot district. The daylong programmes will be started with special prayers for the solidarity, unity and prosperity of the country.

Meanwhile, the preparations for celebrating Independence Day gained momentum in the city and other parts of the district. The sale of national flags, colourful buntings and garlands, big portraits of Quaid-e-Azam, Allama Iqbal and other national heroes was in full swing in the city and people were purchasing national flags, colourful buntings and other decorative material for decorating their homes and shopping centres.

On this occasion various social, cultural organizations and educational institutions were busy in preparing colourful programme for celebrating a monthlong Independence Day with national spirit in Sialkot, Daska, Pasrur and Sambrial tehsils of Sialkot district on August 14.

Besides, the staff of Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) Sialkot and Sialkot Cantonment Board (SCB) is busy in decorating the city and Cantonment areas with national flags as a mark of Independence Day celebrations. The bazaars, commercial areas, shopping malls and roads were decorated with national flags and colourful buntings.

A special flag hoisting ceremony will be held under auspices of Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) Sialkot at Jinnah Hall.