Pakistan Day celebrated with military parade, gun salute
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Pakistan Day celebrations kicked off today (Friday) with a joint military parade at the Parade Ground near Islamabad’s Shakarparian Hills.
The ceremony commenced with the recitation of Holy Quran. President Mamnoon Hussain observed the parade from a jeep. A fly-past of fighter jets including JF-16s, JF 17s, Mirages, AWACs, C-130s and P-3C Orion aircraft of Pakistan Air Force led by Air Chief Mujahid Anwar Khan presented tribute to the president.
Pakistani tank crews steer their vehicles during the Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad on March 23, 2018. PHOTO: AFP
Contingents of the army, navy, air force, special services groups, Frontier Corps, Pakistan Rangers, police, nursing officers, boy scouts and girl guides marched past the dais presenting salute to the president and Guest of honour Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena.
Pakistan’s President Mamnoon Hussain (C) rides a horse-drawn carriage escorted by presidential guards as he arrives at the venue for the Pakistan Day military parade in islamabad on March 23, 2018. PHOTO: AFP
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Defence Minister Khurrum Dastgir, Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, Air Chief Marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan, Naval Chief Admiral Zafar Mahmood Abbasi, Chairman Joint Chief of Staff Committee Zubair Mehmood Hayat and other civil and military top brass also marked their presence at the ceremony.
Pakistan’s President Mamnoon Hussain (R), Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena (L) and Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi attend the Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad on March 23, 2018. PHOTO: AFP
Bahria Town to host Pakistan Day celebrations
Over 2, 000 personnel were deployed to secure Islamabad in connection with Pakistan Day events. Faizabad Interchange and roads leading to Parade Ground were closed except for invitees who have been issued special passes.
Pakistani tank crews steer their vehicles during the Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad on March 23, 2018. PHOTO: AFP
Nation marks Pakistan Day with military parade, gun salute - The Express Tribune
The ceremony commenced with the recitation of Holy Quran. President Mamnoon Hussain observed the parade from a jeep. A fly-past of fighter jets including JF-16s, JF 17s, Mirages, AWACs, C-130s and P-3C Orion aircraft of Pakistan Air Force led by Air Chief Mujahid Anwar Khan presented tribute to the president.
Pakistani tank crews steer their vehicles during the Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad on March 23, 2018. PHOTO: AFP
Contingents of the army, navy, air force, special services groups, Frontier Corps, Pakistan Rangers, police, nursing officers, boy scouts and girl guides marched past the dais presenting salute to the president and Guest of honour Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena.
Pakistan’s President Mamnoon Hussain (C) rides a horse-drawn carriage escorted by presidential guards as he arrives at the venue for the Pakistan Day military parade in islamabad on March 23, 2018. PHOTO: AFP
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Defence Minister Khurrum Dastgir, Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, Air Chief Marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan, Naval Chief Admiral Zafar Mahmood Abbasi, Chairman Joint Chief of Staff Committee Zubair Mehmood Hayat and other civil and military top brass also marked their presence at the ceremony.
Pakistan’s President Mamnoon Hussain (R), Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena (L) and Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi attend the Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad on March 23, 2018. PHOTO: AFP
Bahria Town to host Pakistan Day celebrations
Over 2, 000 personnel were deployed to secure Islamabad in connection with Pakistan Day events. Faizabad Interchange and roads leading to Parade Ground were closed except for invitees who have been issued special passes.
Pakistani tank crews steer their vehicles during the Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad on March 23, 2018. PHOTO: AFP
Nation marks Pakistan Day with military parade, gun salute - The Express Tribune
In a first, Indian diplomats attend Pakistan Day parade in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD: In an unprecedented move, senior Indian military officials and diplomats posted in Islamabad attended the Friday’s military parade to mark the Pakistan Day.
Amid heightened tensions between the two neighbouring countries, the Pakistan Army invited, for the first time, Indian Defence Attache and senior diplomats of the Indian High Commission to join March 23 celebrations, a senior military official told The Express Tribune.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official revealed that it was an initiative of Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa aimed to send a peace message to India.
The purpose behind inviting Indian military representatives is to send a message that while Pakistan “stands for peace”, it is also ready to defend every inch of the country in case of any misadventure, he said.
An Indian delegation including Indian army officer Sanjay Vishwasrao (C) watch the Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad on March 23, 2018. PHOTO: AFP
The move comes at a time when tensions have been simmering between Islamabad and New Delhi for months with frequent incidents of clashes along the Line of Control (LoC) and Working Boundary (WB).
While the army chief is believed to be in favour of improved ties, the ball is now in India’s court to see how the unprecedented gesture will be reciprocated.
ISLAMABAD: In an unprecedented move, senior Indian military officials and diplomats posted in Islamabad attended the Friday’s military parade to mark the Pakistan Day.
Amid heightened tensions between the two neighbouring countries, the Pakistan Army invited, for the first time, Indian Defence Attache and senior diplomats of the Indian High Commission to join March 23 celebrations, a senior military official told The Express Tribune.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official revealed that it was an initiative of Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa aimed to send a peace message to India.
The purpose behind inviting Indian military representatives is to send a message that while Pakistan “stands for peace”, it is also ready to defend every inch of the country in case of any misadventure, he said.
An Indian delegation including Indian army officer Sanjay Vishwasrao (C) watch the Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad on March 23, 2018. PHOTO: AFP
The move comes at a time when tensions have been simmering between Islamabad and New Delhi for months with frequent incidents of clashes along the Line of Control (LoC) and Working Boundary (WB).
While the army chief is believed to be in favour of improved ties, the ball is now in India’s court to see how the unprecedented gesture will be reciprocated.
For surviving as a nation ?! With no history or identity but only hatred.
Thought Pakistan Day would be in December, because you know.....that's when Pakistan as it exists today was actually born....well but then......hm......
Why do you have to take pot shots on others to make a point? That too in every other unrelated thread.
If someone is criticising something then it could mean he cares enough about its long-term well being. Like a parent who always complains about his teenage boy. Everyone judges, You judge Bangladesh to feel good about your country. Perhaps he thinks its pointless.
All beings, rather than existing independently, exist in relation to other beings - Buddha
I made an analogy . Where did I refer to Bangladesh to feel good about ourselves ? And since when are you playing his advocate ?
For all the above commenters, India in its current form also never existed before British arrival. It was an area comprising of many small kingdoms.
Yours and ours history started after 1947.
Yours and ours history started after 1947.
Your history started after 1947. We were a nation from the time of Lord Rama. The concept of a nation based on culture is alien to you but it is deeply embedded in our psyche.
The idea of India itself is civilizational. It can be traced back to thousands of years.
The concept of a nation state is very new to human history. Barely 300 years.
The idea of Pakistan is some 80-year-old concept. Made up by insecure power hungry elites of then India.
The nation-state India carry the history of a civilization which very few nations can claim. United States has no civilizational background yet they made up for it by their values instituted by their visionary forefathers. Which Pakistan lacked from the day one.
Unlike nations, civilizations are hard to destroy. India was cut off from its most fertile land in the east and river valley it identified itself in the west. Yet it survives.
US was fractured before the civil war. in fact, every pre-nation states were. India is still divided by religion, language and what not. It survives only because it's a civilization predates nations.
India is an ancient concept, and civilization dating back thousands of years; and at one point, everything from Eastern Afghanistan all the way to Singapore was encompassed in it - and that includes your own ancestors (regardless of whether they always lived in the region that became Pakistan, or emigrated as Muhajirs).
Seeing as you are detached from or in denial of your true civilizational roots, I am not surprised that you have made such an inaccurate comment.
And that precisely is the reason why Republic Day is on Jan 26th, instead of the new year as per the Saka Era or any other calendar. Good try.
Yeah, you are right. And the same book said humanity never existed before 700 AD.
I even read that Columbus was looking for Rawalpindi HQ instead of Pentagon.
Your childhood must have been awesome while reading history of some parallel world, isn't it ??
Looking at the comments again. It's funny how people are presenting vague theories to justify "5000 year old India" . The word India itself was coined by the British who couldn't say the word "Hind" so they called it "indd" then India.
Ever heard the term Bharat...?
That's what I mean when I say, India/Bharat is much older than you can understand, we're not an artificial entity created in 1947 to serve someone's greed or some other country's geopolitical goals like Pakistan was.
For the benefit of madrassa educated people
India the English term is from Greek Ἰνδία (Indía), via Latin India. Indía in Koine Greek denoted the region beyond the Indus (Ἰνδός) river in the Pakistan, since Herodotus (5th century BC) ἡ Ἰνδική χώρη, hē Indikē chōrē; "the Indian land", Ἰνδός, Indos, "an Indian", from Old Persian Hinduš and listed as a conquered territory by Darius I in the Persepolis terrace inscription. The name is derived ultimately from Sindhu, the Sanskrit name of the river which is a part of Pakistan today, but also meaning "river" generically. Latin India is used by Lucian (2nd century AD).
The name India was known in Old English language and was used in King Alfred's translation of Paulus Orosius. In Middle English, the name was, under French influence, replaced by Ynde or Inde, which entered Early Modern English as Indie. The name India then came back to English usage from the 17th century onwards, and may be due to the influence of Latin, or Spanish or Portuguese.
Bharat the name is derived from the ancient Hindu Puranas, which refer to the land that comprises India as Bhāratavarṣa(Sanskrit: भारतवर्ष, lit. country of Bharata) and uses this term to distinguish it from other varṣas or continents. "The country (varṣam) that lies north of the ocean and south of the snowy mountains is called Bhāratam; there dwell the descendants of Bharata."—Vishnu Purana
Hindustan the words Hindū (Persian: هندو) and Hind(Persian: هند) came from Old Persian hindūšfrom Indo-Aryan/Sanskrit Sindhu (the Indusriver or its region) while -stān (Persian: ستان) means "country" or "land" (cognate with Sanskrit sthāna "place, region"). The land which had originally been called Hindūstān(Persian: هندوستان) lay to the east of the Indusriver and south of the Himalayas. Emperor Babur said, "On the East, the South, and the West it is bounded by the Great Ocean." Hind was notably adapted in the Arabic language as the definitive form Al-Hind (الهند) for India, e.g. in the 11th century Tarikh Al-Hind "History of India").
Tianzhu or Tenjiku (Chinese and Japanese: 天竺) (originally pronounced xien-t'juk) is the historical East Asian name for India that comes from the Chinese transliteration of the Persian Hindu, which itself is derived from the Sanskrit Sindhu, the native name of the Indus River.Tianzhu was also referred to as Wutianzhu (五天竺, literally "Five Indias"), because there were five geographical regions in India known to the Chinese: Central, Eastern, Western, Northern, and Southern India. The monk Xuanzang also referred to India as Wu Yin or "Five Inds".
The term is also used in Japan, where it is pronounced as Tenjiku (天竺). The foreign loanwords Indo (インド) and India (インディア) are also used in some cases. The current Japanese name for modern India is the foreign loanword Indo (インド).
Hodu Hebrew: הֹדּוּ Hoddû) is the BiblicalHebrew name for India mentioned in the Book of Esther part of the Jewish Tanakh (Bible) and Christian Old Testament. In Esther 1:1, Ahasuerus (Xerxes) had been described as King ruling 127 provinces from Hodu (India) to Ethiopia.
So koi Shak ?
As for Pakistan it is in existence only since 1947 , learn to live with it .
As for the reality regarding Pakistan's existence amrullah saleh gets to the point, seriously he got it 100% correct.
Pakistan is a mistake of history , mistakenly created by colonial powers
India the English term is from Greek Ἰνδία (Indía), via Latin India. Indía in Koine Greek denoted the region beyond the Indus (Ἰνδός) river in the Pakistan, since Herodotus (5th century BC) ἡ Ἰνδική χώρη, hē Indikē chōrē; "the Indian land", Ἰνδός, Indos, "an Indian", from Old Persian Hinduš and listed as a conquered territory by Darius I in the Persepolis terrace inscription. The name is derived ultimately from Sindhu, the Sanskrit name of the river which is a part of Pakistan today, but also meaning "river" generically. Latin India is used by Lucian (2nd century AD).
The name India was known in Old English language and was used in King Alfred's translation of Paulus Orosius. In Middle English, the name was, under French influence, replaced by Ynde or Inde, which entered Early Modern English as Indie. The name India then came back to English usage from the 17th century onwards, and may be due to the influence of Latin, or Spanish or Portuguese.
Bharat the name is derived from the ancient Hindu Puranas, which refer to the land that comprises India as Bhāratavarṣa(Sanskrit: भारतवर्ष, lit. country of Bharata) and uses this term to distinguish it from other varṣas or continents. "The country (varṣam) that lies north of the ocean and south of the snowy mountains is called Bhāratam; there dwell the descendants of Bharata."—Vishnu Purana
Hindustan the words Hindū (Persian: هندو) and Hind(Persian: هند) came from Old Persian hindūšfrom Indo-Aryan/Sanskrit Sindhu (the Indusriver or its region) while -stān (Persian: ستان) means "country" or "land" (cognate with Sanskrit sthāna "place, region"). The land which had originally been called Hindūstān(Persian: هندوستان) lay to the east of the Indusriver and south of the Himalayas. Emperor Babur said, "On the East, the South, and the West it is bounded by the Great Ocean." Hind was notably adapted in the Arabic language as the definitive form Al-Hind (الهند) for India, e.g. in the 11th century Tarikh Al-Hind "History of India").
Tianzhu or Tenjiku (Chinese and Japanese: 天竺) (originally pronounced xien-t'juk) is the historical East Asian name for India that comes from the Chinese transliteration of the Persian Hindu, which itself is derived from the Sanskrit Sindhu, the native name of the Indus River.Tianzhu was also referred to as Wutianzhu (五天竺, literally "Five Indias"), because there were five geographical regions in India known to the Chinese: Central, Eastern, Western, Northern, and Southern India. The monk Xuanzang also referred to India as Wu Yin or "Five Inds".
The term is also used in Japan, where it is pronounced as Tenjiku (天竺). The foreign loanwords Indo (インド) and India (インディア) are also used in some cases. The current Japanese name for modern India is the foreign loanword Indo (インド).
Hodu Hebrew: הֹדּוּ Hoddû) is the BiblicalHebrew name for India mentioned in the Book of Esther part of the Jewish Tanakh (Bible) and Christian Old Testament. In Esther 1:1, Ahasuerus (Xerxes) had been described as King ruling 127 provinces from Hodu (India) to Ethiopia.
So koi Shak ?
As for Pakistan it is in existence only since 1947 , learn to live with it .
As for the reality regarding Pakistan's existence amrullah saleh gets to the point, seriously he got it 100% correct.
Pakistan is a mistake of history , mistakenly created by colonial powers
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Once again, I agree with your book. "India" word came from Britisher, before that the whole world only knew about Pakistan. So in 6th century BC it was Mohmmad Ali Maurya who was ruling the land assisted by the great thinker Zaid Chanakya, Manoon Alexandar tried invading and went back.
I mean how can somebody not believe that Vasco-da-gama was actually looking for Laskar-e-Taiyba for trade which gave him 600% return. He also came in contact with rich culture of Mard-E-Momins and rest is history, in Andromeda Galaxy.
