Another remarkable effort by the
Pakistani students association Korea (PSAK) for gathering a massive crowed to
celebrate Pakistan Independence day in Hanyang University ERICA campus, South
Korea. I must appreciate the management
of the PSAK for their recent efforts to bring all the scholars to a single platform,
resolve the student’s problems and help the needy people back home. PSAK is
currently having a true spirit of helping each other and deprived people back
home with in the available resources. This sort of activities and zeal is well
needed in the community on national and international level. Thanks to the
organizing teams for their endless efforts to make it a worthy program.
The event started a little late
than the scheduled time, which was because of the late arrival of the chief guest.
Seriously, we need to reconsider our habits of always being late, if we want to
follow the path of successful people. The honorable ambassador, Mr Zahid Nasrullah Khan apologized for being late in his speech as he mentioned that it was
because of his appearance in a meeting with the president of Korea followed by traffic
jam. The event was started with the recitation from holly Quran by Hafiz Waheed
Arbab followed by Naat Rasul-e-maqbbol by Omer Mustapha. Mr.Misbah ullah
delivered his welcome speech, in which he warmly applauded all the participants
from embassy, students from different universities and business community.
Mr.Rasheed Khan presented the greeting messages from the president and prime
minister of Pakistan. Abdul Sami was awesome from the stage and I shared few announcements
as an MC with him.
It was for the first time ever
that the families at HYU, ERICA campus participated in an official event in
such a large number. The event was beautified by the Pakistan supporters in
Incheon Asian games. The Asian games will hold after a month and these
supporters will cheer for Pakistani teams in different sports. These supporters
are 30 energetic Korean young girls and boys who are interested in Pakistani culture
and traditions. Their participation was a proof that PSAK and Korean youth are
very interactive in their daily life activities. PSAK always proved to be a
helping hand whenever they are requested to come forward to show solidarity with
Pakistan and its people. The Youth supporters distributed some gifts in the
participants included hand fans, pencils and pens with Incheon Asian games
logos. The seating arrangements and lightening were perfect and the background music,
screen/multimedia footage were well maintained.
The ambassador of Pakistan in
Korea Zahid Nasrullah Khan appreciated the efforts of Pakistani Korea for
presenting a good image of Pakistan abroad. He mentioned that the embassy of
Pakistan will try to solve the student’s problems at prior bases. He announced
that the embassy will not charge any student for the attestation of their documents
from today onward. Mr Shahzad, Zahid Husain and A.B Saim entertained the
participants with their poetry which was highly appreciated by the spectators. A
special video was prepared to enlighten the struggles for making Pakistan. The contents
of video come up with a great message to show our individual efforts to make
Pakistan a prosperous nation.
Traditional dances of Khyber
Paktoonkhwa, Sindh and Punjab, presented by Alam Zeb, Ahamd and Abid respectively
with their friends entertained the audience more than anything else. Participation
from the audience get so much crazy that they became a part of the dancing groups;
Those were incredible and loving moments of the night.
Mr. Omer Salamn, Mr Ali
ansari , Mr saleem and Abdul Sami presented a heart touching skit, mentioning
the brotherhood of all the provinces of Pakistan. They were successful in
delivering the message of unity, strength, dedication, individual and combined
efforts to make Pakistan, a nation with integrity and harmony. Enchanted with
fun, the performance of Omer salman and his company was incredibly well enough
to bring smiles on the faces of participants, filling every one with patriotic passion.
Mr. Hassan the president of the
PSAK, in his concluding speech mentioned that every one of us should struggle in
individual capacity to make Pakistan a better place to live. He said that most
of us point out the problems in our society but none of us is ready to be the
first drop of change. We can be a source of inspiration for all others by bringing
a positive revolution in our attitudes. He thanks all the participants for the
active participation to make this event a success. Hats off of the camera men, Mian Ishfaq, Saqib
Bhatti, Imran Hassan and Saqib ali Khan for capturing the memorable moments of
the event. The event came to end with Dua by Hafiz Abdul Manan followed by a
delicious dinner.
Over all it was a great night,
beautified by the enthusiasm of every Pakistani. Such events are well needed to
extend our traditions, culture and peace loving nature to the people of Korea
and to develop a more mature and helping community abroad.
