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Maldives: Pakistan embassy in Male’ celebrates Pakistan’s 75th Independence Day
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MALE, 15 August 2021, (TON): The Pakistan High Commission in Male’ held a flag-hoisting ceremony on Saturday to celebrate Pakistan’s 75th Independence Day.
The ceremony was held at the Pakistan High Commission in Male’ on Saturday, and was attended by Pakistan High Commissioner Vice Admiral (Retired) Ather Mukhtar and Pakistani nationals living in Maldives.
Speaking at the ceremony, Mukhtar congratulated all Pakistanis on the auspicious occasion of Independence Day.
"The day is an occasion to pay tribute to all those sons of the soil who laid lives while defending and protecting territorial as well as ideological frontiers of the mother land,” he said.
Mukhtar, in his speech, highlighted on importance of the independence. He spoke of how Muslims of the subcontinent, under the leadership of Pakistan’s founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, strived for a separate homeland, and of how Pakistan emerged on the world map as the first ideological Muslim state on August 14, 1947.
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