Much-delayed: Music eventuality to kickstart Margalla Festival today
ISLAMABAD: After releasing and reworking a report during slightest dual times, a Capital Development Authority on Friday pronounced it was geared to flog off a annual Margalla Festival with a grand low-pitched eventuality scheduled for today.
During a assembly to examination preparations for a festival during CDA domicile on Friday, arrangements for grave coronation rite were deliberated on.
Islamabad Metropolitan Corporation (IMC) Mayor and CDA Chairman Sheikh Anser Aziz were told that a festival would be kicked off by a mega Sufi low-pitched night on Jan 28 during Lok Virsa. Artists including a likes of Arieb Azher, Aliwer Saada, Gul Muhammad and Mohsin Jan are approaching to perform during a event.
Deputy Mayor Zeeshan Ali Naqvi told a assembly that pronounced that a festival directed to yield peculiarity party to residents of a twin cities and would see a horde of sports and informative activities in partnership with opposite sports and informative associations and federations.
Naqvi forked out that activities depicting a cultures of all 4 provinces, along with Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, would be organized during a festival.
The assembly serve motionless that in sequence to supplement some-more charming programmes to a festival, companies and people should contention their suggestions latest by Feb 5.
Much-delayed
The CDA had late in Dec released a minute devise on a Facebook page inventory out activities for a three-month prolonged festival. The planner listed that some activities, such as a sporting tournaments would flog off from Jan 3 with a badminton tournament. The grand sufi night had been slated for Jan 21, while a whole festival was scheduled to interpretation in early April.
However, only a few days later, that report was revised with a sufi night still headlining a festival yet with all other sporting events scheduled to follow it. The festival was also extended to a finish of April.
In fact, people who visited a sports formidable for a sporting tournaments according to a aged report complained that there was zero there.
According to a uninformed report for a festival, released during a commencement of a week, all events have been pushed behind serve to follow a initial eventuality on Jan 28.
The sports events, though, will not start before Feb 8, again with a badminton tournament, and are approaching to continue by to Mar 24 when a final competition, a swimming contest, would be held. Further sum can be found on CDA’s Facebook page.
Published in The Express Tribune, Jan 28th, 2017.
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