Hind-Pak Dosti Manch to hold candlelight vigil at Attari-Wagah joint check-post

With a fervent appeal to Pakistan to stop sending drugs and weapons from its soil to Indian territory through drones, the Hind-Pak Dosti Manch has announced to hold candlelight vigil at Attari-Wagah Joint Check Post on the intervening night of August 14 and 15.

Even as relations between India and Pakistan continue to remain frozen, the Manch in association with farmers, employees and writers’ organisations, decided to hold programmes encouraging peace and harmony between the nuclear-armed neighbours.

Hind-Pak Dosti Manch, Folklore Research Academy, SAFMA and Punjab Jagriti Manch will hold an India-Pakistan summit at Khalsa College here on August 14.

Addressing the gathering, Folklore Research Academy general secretary Satnam Singh Manak said all those organisations which are keen to have close and harmonious relations between the two countries were coming together to hold the event. He said these programmes would offer them an opportunity to appeal to governments to resolve all their bilateral issues peacefully through dialogue. He asserted that they were against war between the two countries as bloodshed does not solve any issue but exaggerate them.

At the same time, he strongly criticised the massacre of innocent tourists by terrorists in Pahalgam and appealed to the government of Pakistan to stop patronising terrorist organisations.

Folklore Research Academy president Ramesh Yadav informed that this year, they would be holding the 30th edition of the Indo-Pak Friendship conference in which important personalities from the country and abroad and peace lovers from different corners of Punjab will participate.

There will be a seminar on the current state of relations between India and Pakistan at Khalsa College. After this, candles will be lit in favour of peace and friendship and against war and terrorism on the intervening

night of August 14-15 at the border.