Rallies were taken out to celebrate the traditional Sindhi Topi and Ajrak Day here on Saturday. Leaders and workers of various political parties, Nationalists parties, NGOs, Sindhi Media Forum, Arts Council of Pakistan and CSS Coaching Center Larkana organised rallies to celebrate the Topi and Ajrak event here in Larkana.
On the occasion, large number of people wearing Sindhi Topis and Ajrak, carrying banners, chanted slogans for Sindhi Culture. The participants of the rallies marched through various thoroughfares and reached Larkana Press Club. The participants of the rallies addressing on the occasion highlighted the significance of the culture day.
The people in Hyderabad celebrated Sindhi Culture Day here on Saturday expressing love for their language, culture and its symbols, Sindhi Topi and Ajrak, as they took out rallies and danced to the tune of Sindhi songs. Many media and civil society groups, the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and Sindhi nationalist parties set up stages equipped with the music systems in different parts of the city and also took out separate rallies.
However, all the rallies flocked at Hyderabad Press Club one after another where a large stage was set up for performance of cultural dances, songs and speeches by the political leaders. Wearing Sindhi Topies and Ajraks the people danced on the Sindhi and folk songs and chanted slogans praising their culture and its symbols.
Sindh Minister for Fisheries, who led the PPP rally, said while addressing the crowd that people of Sindh were devotedly attached to their culture and civilisation. The PPP government was promoting all the cultures of Pakistan through academic study, research and by organising traditional activities. "These people wearing Sindhi Topies and Ajrak are the strength of the PPP," he remarked. However, he declared that the Sindh Government decided to mark the day with simplicity because of the recent rain and flood devastation in Sindh and also because of the demise of Madar-i-Jamohriat Begum Nusrat Bhutto.
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