Punjab Youth Festival

Not to be confused with Punjab Sports Festival.

Punjab Youth Festival (Urdu: پنجاب یوتھ فیسٹیول) is a sports festival held annually in Punjab, Pakistan. Chief Minister of the Punjab Shahbaz Sharif inaugurated it on October 20, 2012. The opening ceremony was held on that day in the National Hockey Stadium, Lahore. During the ceremony, 42,813 students sang the National Anthem in what became a Guinness World Record (GWR) for the highest number of people to have ever sung a national anthem in a live gathering.^[1] The previous record had been held by India, in which fifteen thousand people had participated in an anthem singing.^[2]

Punjab Youth Festival پنجاب یوتھ فیسٹیول
Punjab Youth Festival 2014
Venue	National Hockey Stadium
Location	Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Start date	October 20, 2012 (2012-10-20)

Former logo

On 21 December 2013 member National Assembly Hamza Shahbaz Sharif and Provincial Minister for Sports & Youth Affairs Rana Mashhood Ahmed Khan unveiled the logo of Punjab Youth Festival 2014 at Gymnasium of Punjab Sports Board Lahore.^[3][4]

References

1. "Bid to create world record of singing anthem". Dawn. October 20, 2012. Retrieved October 20, 2012.
2. "Anthem-singing youth set new world record". The Express Tribune. 21 October 2012. Retrieved 21 October 2012.
3. "Hamza unveils Punjab Youth Festival logo". Pakistan Today. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
4. . FrontierPost. 21 December 2013. Archived from the original on 24 December 2013. Retrieved 22 December 2013.

Further reading

• "Basant ban: Kites to fly for Punjab Youth Festival". The Express Tribune. 22 December 2013. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
• "Fraction of Basant returns : Grounded kites to adorn the sky at youth festival". Daily Times. 22 December 2013. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
• Nasir Qureshi (21 December 2013). "Punjab government announces to include Basant mela in Youth Festival". The News Tribe. Retrieved 22 December 2013.

External links

• Punjab Youth Festival's official website