Pak youth team to attend Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday ceremony

ISLAMABAD: The Indian media has claimed that a youth delegation from Pakistan will attend the ceremony for observing the birthday of Indian father of nation Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi (Mahatma Gandhi) in Chandigarh where members of the delegation will donate blood in ‘One World-One Blood’ camp. It will be held on the evening of October 1 at the plaza of Chandigarh’s Sector 17 shopping and commercial hub. “We have been confirmed participation from Pakistan, Saarc countries and nearly 25 other countries. The Pakistan youth delegation has confirmed that they will donate blood at the blood donation camp here,” Pramod Sharma, the coordinator for NGO Yuvsatta, which has been organising the festival in the Indian city Chandhigarh for the past decade, told Indian wire service. The local health authorities will collect the donated blood. “It will help to strengthen the message of unity of mankind and Indian ethos of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ (the whole world is one family),” Sharma said. “Participants for the GYPF are coming from as far away as Venezuela and other parts of the world, including almost from all South Asian, ASEAN and some African countries, as also from Russia, Kazakhstan and the US,” Sharma pointed out.