LAHORE, March 23: The All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) staged a rally on Wednesday to mark Pakistan Day.

The rally started from Gulberg and culminated at the mausoleum of Allama Muhammad Iqbal. A good number of APML workers waiving Pakistani flags and portraits of APML President Pervez Musharraf attended the rally.

Addressing the participants, APML leader Fawad Chaudhry said the Pakistan People’s Party and the Pakistan Muslim League-N’s “manufactured democracy” had failed to deliver to the masses.

He said Quaid-i-Azam’s All India Muslim League that had approved Pakistan Resolution had been reactivated as the APML under the leadership of Gen Musharraf and “we promise that Pakistan will be on the way to progress and prosperity by assuming the power with the public vote”.

Another leader Javed Badar said people would have to come out to show the door to the "incompetent" government.

NH&MP: The National Highways and Motorway Police celebrated the Pakistan Day by organising ‘Motorway Police Solidarity Bikers Rally’ and special ceremonies at the Guidance Centre in Lahore, Training Institute in Sheikhupura and on all national highways and motorways.

According to a press release, the bike solidarity rally was organised from Lahore to Bhera, Faisalabad to Bhera and Islamabad to Bhera under the supervision of NH&MP Inspector General Dr Wasim Kausar.

N-5 DIG Syed Ibne Husain distributed shields among officers for their special performance and placed floral wreaths on monuments of martyrs of motorway police after a flag hoisting ceremony at the Training Institute, Sheikhupura.Small packets of sweets imprinted with the Pakistan Day and road safety slogans were distributed among commuters at the Guidance Centre in Lahore and at different places on national highways.