Nation celebrates Defence and Martyrs Day with great fervor
On the 53rd anniversary of the 1965 war, the nation is celebrating Defence and Martyrs Day Thursday (today) to pay homage to the martyrs and ghazis who stood as solid wall to defend the motherland against the aggression of enemy.
The day beheld its dawn with thirty one gun salute in Islamabad and twenty one gun salutes at provincial capitals.
Change of guard ceremony also took place at Mazar-e-Quaid in Karachi in the morning and a PAF contingent assumed the guard duty of mausoleum of the father of nation.
Later…