Dubai, Aug. 15 (TNS): Continue championing the enormous potential and values of your people and country, Pakistani expatriates in the UAE were told as they celebrated their country’s 71st Independence Day.
Pakistani expatriates gathered at the Pakistan Association Dubai (PAD) Auditorium to mark their country’s independence from British rule since 1947. The event was jointly hosted by Pakistan Embassy and the PAD.
Shaikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, the UAE’s Minister of Tolerance, joined the celebrations as the evening’s chief guest hosted by Pakistan Ambassador Moazzem Ahmad Khan and PAD officials. Senior officials from the Community Development Authority and Dar Al Ber Society and members of the diplomatic corps were also present.
During the ceremony, Shaikh Nahyan also launched the ‘Junior Brick’ campaign where children get to symbolically own a brick as contribution to the building of the Pakistan Medical Centre in front of the PAD Auditorium.
A child can own as many bricks as he wants, with each brick costing Dh100. All proceeds will go to the paediatric services of the medical centre that is currently under construction.
