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Events / 14 August
Punjab
Pakistan's national day on 14 August, flags, fireworks, and celebration nationwide, with Lahore's Minar-e-Pakistan at the symbolic centre.
Independence Day marks Pakistan's creation in 1947. Cities fill with green-and-white flags, fireworks, parades, and music; Minar-e-Pakistan in Lahore, where the 1940 resolution was passed, is a focal point.
Streets turn green and white, with flag stalls, fireworks, and patriotic music. It is festive and crowded, experience it with local hosts who know the best, safest vantage points.
Use Plan a trip to base in Lahore or Islamabad over 14 August and tie the day to the city's monuments and history.
February
Pakistan's largest motorsport event, a multi-day off-road rally across the Cholistan dunes, staged around the great Derawar Fort.
February
Lahore's spring kite festival, rooftops and skies fill with colour to welcome the end of winter.
March
Lahore's “Festival of Lights”, the Urs of the Sufi poet Shah Hussain, celebrated with lamps, music, and devotion.
