Hind-Pak Dosti Manch takes out peace march

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, August 13

Members of the Hind-Pak Dosti Manch, Folklore Research Academy (FRA) and Punjab Jagriti Manch, Jalandhar, today carried out a symbolic peace march from Jallianwala Bagh to the Attari-Wagah Joint Check Post.

FRA president Ramesh Yadav said after lighting the lamp at the martyr’s memorial, they went to the memorial of the victims of the 1947 partition, raised at the JCP in Attari. There, they paid floral tributes in their memory.

Yadav informed that a special screening of Gurinder Chadha’s latest movie, ‘Partition: 1947’, will be held here as part of the 22nd Hind-Pak Dosti Sammelan on August 14.

He said these events were annually organised to promote peaceful co-existence between the two neighbouring countries.

Jatin Desai, Anil Sharma from Agra, Kamaljeet Gill, Kanwal Jassal and Kiran were among those present on the occasion.