RAWALPINDI, Aug 13 (APP):Rawalpindi district administration, police and the citizens are all set to celebrate the 77th Independence Day on August 14, Wednesday with great enthusiasm and national zeal as all the preparations including tight security arrangements have been finalized.
Rawalpindi District Administration, District Police, City Traffic Police, Punjab Emergency Service, Rescue 1122, Civil Defence and other departments concerned have finalized all the arrangements in this regard.
Commissioner Rawalpindi Division, Engineer Aamir Khattak had directed all the departments to ensure Independence Day celebrations in a dignified manner.
Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) on the directives of the Commissioner was also finalizing all the arrangements to celebrate the Independence Day. Director General (DG) RDA Kinza Murtaza had directed the authorities concerned that the markets, plazas, shops and roads particularly Murree Road from Chandni Chowk to Faizabad and Airport Road should be decorated with national flags, buntings, paintings and colourful lights.
She directed all RDA and WASA officers to finalize the best possible arrangements for the day. With the start of August, Jashan-e-Azadi preparations were started here in every nook and corner of the city to celebrate Independence Day with great enthusiasm and national fervour.
All the main buildings including Rawalpindi Railway Station, Rawalpindi and Chaklala Cantonment Board offices, Askari Plaza, Mall Road, Metro Track, Murree Road, RDA, WASA and PHA buildings, National Bank Saddar Main Branch, Bank Road, Mall Road and several other areas have been beautifully decorated to mark the Independence Day.
The business community was also actively taking part in the Independence Day celebrations and decorating markets and roads. The buildings have been illuminated and a number of colourful activities have also been planned to mark this occasion with great enthusiasm.
Different public and private departments would hold special functions and activities including seminars, discussion programmes, photographic exhibitions, painting, poetry, national songs and debate competitions with the focus on acknowledging the contribution of leaders of Pakistan movement and sacrifices of national heroes.
The printers and makers of buntings, flags, banners and badges are fully engaged in their business. Jashan-e-Azadi preparations reached at its peak on Tuesday as the citizens were getting ready to celebrate the Independence Day with zeal and zest.
Rawalpindi Arts Council (RAC) is arranging exhibitions and other activities to mark Independence Day. According to roadside vendors, the most enthusiastic are the children who are busy in collecting badges and also beautifying their bicycles with special stickers inscribed with messages of Independence Day.
A vendor, Altaf near Chandni Chowk said the demand for the national flag and badges was on the rise after Aug 10, adding that most of the motorists were buying flags to hoist on their vehicles. Another seller in Liaquat Bagh area namely Majeed said that like every year, this year too the vendors at their stalls on footpaths were doing a roaring business and trying to sell whatever they had as the entire inventory would go waste on August 15.
The shopkeepers and footpath vendors had set up their temporary stalls in almost all areas of the town with the start of August where people were seen busy in buying things at cheaper rates.
A large number of stalls with buntings, flags, badges and other items were established in several city markets including Tench Bhatta, Lalkurti, Saddar, Moti, Raja and Urdu Bazaars, Benazir Bhutto Road, Bunni Market, Satellite Town, Sadiqabad and other areas of the city.
Nowadays, national songs are in the air which gives the message that whole the nation is united.
Many food outlets have offered ‘Azadi’ deals with special discounts to attract food lovers while different boutiques and shops also offered a huge variety of ‘Azadi’ dresses.
According to a Rawalpindi district police spokesman, police had finalized all the arrangements to beef up security on Jashan-e-Azadi while over 5300 cops were deployed under the security plan devised for Independence Day.
They were being supported by members of the Elite Force, Women Police officers and officials from the special branch. Special temporary pickets were also set up for snap checking and for cordoning off sensitive areas.
Police officers were also deputed on parks and entertainment spots in the city. There were enhanced patrolling from police officers, members of the elite force, Muhafiz Squads and Dolphin Force.
City Police Officer, Syed Khalid Hamdani urged the public not to indulge in any illegal activities on Independence Day such as aerial firing, one-wheeling and rash driving.
The police spokesperson said Elite Force, Muhafiz Force and Dolphin Force were patrolling the roads and streets while traffic officials were regulating traffic round the clock.
The spokesman informed that special security arrangements had also been finalized for Murree.
City Traffic Police (CTP) issued a traffic plan to facilitate commuters and the general public on Pakistan Independence Day.
According to Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) Rawalpindi, Beenish Fatima, special pickets had been erected in the city and on entry points of Murree to thwart one-wheeling on the eve of August 14 and strict action would be taken against one-wheelers.
He said, 950 cops had been deployed in Murree to handle the traffic load on August 14.
Over 750 traffic officials would be on special duty while on Tuesday night and Wednesday while 57 special pickets were set up and seven special squads were formed up to control one wheeling in Rawalpindi.
Over 233 traffic wardens would be on duty in Murree to regulate traffic on Independence Day.
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