Islamabad, Dec 25 (IANS) Pakistan Tuesday paid homage to its founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah on his 136th birth anniversary through special events organised on the occasion.
President Asif Ali Zardari, provincial governors, chief ministers, political leaders and the commoners visited his mausoleum in the port city of Karachi to pay their tributes.
Zardari laid a floral wreath on his grave.
“Let us re-pledge today to fight to finish the demons of extremism and militancy that seek to strike Pakistan,” the president said.
The newspapers, TV channels and radio stations aired special programmes, Xinhua reported.
On the visitors’ book the president wrote: “We pledge today to uphold the democratic values for which Pakistan was created. I call upon the people to join hands in fighting the mind-set that is seeking to destroy our nationhood and democracy.”
Jinnah led a movement in 1947 to curve out a separate nation for the Muslims from the Indian sub-continent.
