ISLAMABAD, Dec 24: The nation will celebrate the 127th birth anniversary of the founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, with national spirit and enthusiasm on Thursday.

The day has been announced a public holiday in the country and Azad Jammu and Kashmir. The national flag will fly at all government buildings. The day will dawn with special prayers in mosques for the Quaid-i-Azam.

A contingent of Gentlemen Cadets from the Pakistan Military Academy, Kakul, will mount the guard at the Quaid’s mausoleum. The PMA has the singular honour of being the only military institution designated as “Quaid-i-Azam’s own” by the Father of the Nation himself who was the first and the only Colonel-in-Chief of the Academy. The representatives of three services and people from different walks of life will lay wreaths at the mausoleum.

The mausoleum, the Quaid-i-Azam Museum (Wazir Mansion) and the Flag Staff House in Karachi will be illuminated as part of the celebrations.

Political, social and literary organizations have organized various programmes to mark the day in a befitting manner.—APP