KARACHI, Aug 8: The Pakistan Peace Coalition (PPC) and the People’s Saarc (Pakistan Process) on Thursday announced that they had postponed Pakistan-India joint independence day peace celebrations at the Sindh-Rajasthan border scheduled to be held at Khokhrapar in Umerkot district on Aug 14.The People’s Saarc had taken the initiative of celebrating Pakistani and Indian independence days (August 14-15) as a peace event by the people at the Sindh and Rajasthan border, said a statement issued here on Thursday.

It was for the first time that such an initiative was taken on the soil of Sindh.

Every year a joint Independence Day celebration is organised at the Wagah-Attari border in Punjab by the civil society of Pakistan and India.

The PPC and Pakistan Process of People’s Saarc have decided to convert the event into a Pakistan-India peace conference simultaneously in both India and Pakistan on August 24.

These conferences can be held in New Delhi or any other city in India (to be decided by the Indian Process of People’s Saarc) and in Pakistan in Karachi/ Hyderabad/ Umerkot (to be decided by the organising committee).

“We pledge to continue our efforts for bringing peace-loving people of both India and Pakistan much closer,” the statement said. —APP