(12 Aug 2025)
PAKISTAN INDEPENDENCE DAY
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Karachi, Pakistan – 11 August 2025
1. Various of market, people shopping ahead of the country’s 78th Independence Day
2. Flags
3. Various of family shopping for party horns
4. Man using party horn
5. Beads on display
6. Various of students shopping
7. Strings of beads on display
8. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Furrukh Anam, shopper:
"This is our 78th Independence Day in Pakistan. We came here to the wholesale market to purchase badges, flags and Independence Day-related clothes for the children, to celebrate the Independence Day with zeal and fervor. We will decorate our home on Independence Day. And this year, we will celebrate the Independence Day with more patriotism because we defeated India in war recently, and this will double our celebration."
9. Market, Pakistani flags
10. Family members purchasing army-themed clothes for their children
11. Clothes on display
12. Various of women selling bangles in the colors of the Pakistani flag
13. Masks on display
14. Various of flags and pins on display
15. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Syed Rahim Shah, shopper:
"We should display the national flags at different places of the city. We should also plant beautiful saplings to make the city green and environmental friendly."
16. Various of city landmarks illuminated in green for Independence Day festivities
STORYLINE:
Pakistanis in the southern port city of Karachi are preparing to mark the 78th Independence Day later this week.
Shoppers at markets in the city purchased Pakistani flags and clothes for their children.
"We came here to the wholesale market to purchase badges, flags and Independence Day-related clothes for the children," said shopper Furrukh Anam.
The Pakistani government has declared August 14 a national holiday for Independence Day celebrations.
The holiday comes after nuclear rivals India and Pakistan stepped back from brink of war earlier in the year.
Landmarks in Karachi were illuminated in green to kick off the festivities.
Pakistan’s day of independence came on Aug. 14, 1947.
It was the year Britain ended its colonial rule over the Indian subcontinent, which become two independent nations — Hindu-majority, but secularly governed India and the Islamic republic of Pakistan.
AP video shot by Muhammad Farooq
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