The battle for the tallest flagpoles between Pakistan and India is nothing new.
India hoisted a 360 feet tall tricolor flag in March 2017. In response, Pakistan hoisted a 400 feet tall flag on its 70th Independence Day on August 14, 2017.
As a rebuttal, India hoisted a 418-f00t-long flag on the Joint Check Post (JCP) at Wahga Border. Not to be outdone, Pakistan is set to install a 500-foot-high flag at Liberty, Lahore.
The provincial government will procure a whopping Rs. 400 million for the project from the development budget. The flag-raising ceremony will take place on Independence Day — August 14, 2023.
The caretaker Chief Minister Punjab Mohsin Naqvi also announced earlier today that Lahore will get three new underpasses. Their construction will start on July 17.
Naqvi said that the construction of three new underpasses will alleviate traffic jams and that the reconstruction of Walton Road will also be launched soon. He also reviewed the construction of the Akbar Chowk flyover in Lahore.
If only hoisting flags bear any fruits.
Sari Zindagi isi cheez mai guzar daina k kis ki taang zyada uper jaati hai wagha border par aur kis ka jhanda zyada uper laga hoa hai. Afsoos..!
Plesae dont waste money for this. Instead, give this fund to a private company to deploy fiber broadband in 1-2 major cities of AJK or GB. Much better munnthapar response.
ab kya faida jo paysay zyada karnay thay wo to ho gaye
Please don’t waste money on such useless projects. It contribute nothing to poor nation standing in queue in search of flour
Developed countries aysa kary to samj my ata hy… Lakin ham jasi countries jab loan ly ly kr asy kam karti hain to sharm b ani chahiey
What a useless expense while millions find it hard to survive below poverty line. These rulers are imbeciles.
No wonder we are in this state of affairs. We just can’t prioritise, easy come easy go.
Give Rs 100K each to 4000
poor families instead. That will give them some relief from this evil of inflation!
Could have spent this amount on making the sewerage system better in lahore but have to do stupid acts just to show off. Everyone knows india has attained a much better status with its policies in the global world. Nothing much is going to come out of hoisting the flag higher. India is planning to go to the moon then what is pakistan planning of doing to hoist its flag on the moon the answer is NOTHING.
Wow. It certainly suits a 3rd world nation, where a big portion of the population is starving to death….. well done 👍
بے جا فضول خرچی ایک ایسے ملک میں جو ایک ایک ڈالر کو ترس رہا ہے اور جس کا وزیراعظم پوری دنیا کے سامنے ہاتھ پھیلائے بھیک مانگ رہا ہو ۔ بہت ہی شرم کی بات ہے اس وقت میں ایسے پراجیکٹ کا سوچنا بھی!
40 crores
Aisa Kya Hy Bhai is pole mein
Something is not correct with the reporting I guess
Pathetic way of spending 400 million on such a stoopid work . We need to work on our rehabilitation rather on 600feet flags
That accounts to around 5% recent IMF debt wasted on a completely useless thing
What a Joker of a nation!
How long are we going to keep destroying ouselves with such foolish acts?