HYDERABAD, Aug 13: The city has chalked out various colourful programmes to mark the Independence Day of Pakistan with the main function being held at District Nazim Secretariat, where District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil will hoist the national flag at 9 am.

The flag hoisting ceremony will be followed by recitation of national anthem by contingents of students and police band, police parade and presentation of a tableau by special students.

The Social Welfare and Community Development Department have arranged a separate programme of flag-hoisting and distribution of sweets and gifts at various centres at RCPH, Darul Atfal, Darul Aman, Socio-Economic Gari Khata, Women Welfare Centre of Silawat Para, Latifabad Unit No.2 and 5, Pak-Social Welfare Society Hali Road, Youth Welfare Society Latifabad Unit No.10, WWC Tandojam, Child-Care Centre Bakra Piri, Rural Development Society Taluka Hyderabad, Multipurpose Child Welfare Centre Wahdat Colony, Women Welfare Centre Ali Nagar Qasimabad and Women Welfare Centre Sehrish Nagar Qasimabad.

The Social Welfare and CDD have also organised Malakhro in Qasimabad near Ali Palace at 5 pm in which prominent wrestlers will participate.

DCO Aftab Ahmed Khatri will inaugurate the Red Crescent so-safe water purification plant at Red Crescent General Hospital Unit No.6 Latifabad, and fruit packets will be distributed among patients at the Red Crescent General Hospital and Red Crescent Cardiac Hospital.

STP DELEGATION: A 40-member delegation of the Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party (STP) led by its senior vice-chairman, Dr Abdul Hameed Memon, left for Rawalpindi on Monday to attend the All-Pakistan Democratic Movement’s public meeting on Aug 14.