Friday, March 23, 2012

Hamara Karachi Festival 2012 highlighting city’s culture and heritage gets underway

Jumbo Editorial Team

Like the last five years, the Hamara Karachi Festival is also being organized this year with the traditional zeal and fervour and it has already got underway on March 13 with a milad at the Abdullah Shah Ghazi Mazaar in Clifton.

This year the theme of the festival is ‘Hamara Karachi, Hamara Pakistan’. It is being organised with the collaboration of the revived Karachi Municipal Corporation (KMC).

A beautiful firework display was organized by District Municipal Corporation, Karachi East, at the Chahar Minar Bahadurabad Chowk as a part of the Hamara Karachi Festival on the Pakistan Day.

The President of the Hamara Karachi Foundation, Senator Nasreen Jalil, also a former Naib Nazim (Deputy Mayor) of Karachi, has announced that the festival, scheduled to continue until April 7, will be celebrated this time with lots of entertainment items with an aim to highlight the city’s culture and heritage.

As in the past, different activities will be organised at various places of the city. The festival activities included music concert, photo exhibition, cycle race, donkey-cart race, inter-faith evening, seafood festival, beach games, flower show, film shows for special children, walks and cultural shows.

It has been planned to set up food streets at Burns Road, Boat Basin and North Nazimabad while the other events of the festival will be spread all over the city, including Clifton, Nazimabad, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Mohammad Ali Jinnah Road, Federal-B-Area and Gulistan-e-Jauhar.

Meanwhile the Hamara Karachi seven-a-side Floodlit Football tournament has commenced at the National Soccer Academy Ground in Paposh. The Sindh Sports Minister, Dr Syed Muhammad Ali Shah, was the chief guest in the colourful opening ceremony held on March 15.

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