Lots of respect for General Raheel, He is true Army Chief.

No Facebook like or share option??

Where is public?

Your comment Very nice display, a message to terrorists that there has been no effect of their brutal activities on Pak defence.

that's brilliant. Revival of passion, confidence and trust on and from army and public think we will now sort out our problems and would not let anyone to mess up with Pakistan, not even the Muslims countries rely on you own resources.

I hope all this equipment will work when needed, LOL.

@Syed Ganga Din I hope you are who you name you are Sir!?!

@Syed Ganga Din Try that!

A salute to pakistan army, a symbolic strenght and a warning sword to unbelievers... LONG LIVE PAKISTAN... PAKISTAN is one of the piece of jannah(Paradise) given to us by ALLAH..

@Syed Ganga Din Sure it will...and you will be no more to verify it

I salute to my pak army and pray from my ALLAH that save our country from terrorism and make this land peaceful heart emoticon # 23rdMarch # PakistanZindabad

great task done by our proud army.i salute pakistani army

Happy celebration to pakistan from india.

Salute to all mothers who sacrificed their brave sons to provide safe haven to millions of people living in Pakistan. Salute to Arm forces and a request to all Pakistani be united against all evil PAKISTAN ZINDABAD!!!

@Syed Ganga Din Indian Army knows that better ask them @topic still feeling that song when they played "ab waqt e shadat hai aya"

you see this your heart and blood get warm not with hate or love of war, but the love for my Pakistan

Great Job...Well Done!!!

@Syed Ganga Din are you still in doubt. all these has been used in operations in Pakistan. hope they lube them as needed

Every rupee spend on the army is well worth it. Besides, where is more grass that we can eat?

I Love my Country and also my lovely people. I am working in a foreign country when i saw on Facebook alot of images of 23 rd March photo share by someone i remember my past when i chilhod time i went with my parents PAF Academy i liked and enjoy to much. Long Life PAKISTAN

Awesome great passion ...........so spirit is in blood of Pakistani Nation! But hight of this passion and spirit we couldn't measure because of Army honesty and training. Pakistan Zindabad and Pak Army Piandabad

Marvellous and spectacular!Proud of pak army.

OUR all forces are very brave and faithfull we our forces

Overall good snaps except the last one, which is a poor show by a marching contingent.

Pakistan Zindabad. Feeling really good after long time.Respect Pak Army

Live long Pakistan !! Love you Pak Army

Nice Pics. Congrats to all Pak friends on their national day. I am missing saffron colour in air show and sync in last pic of march past.

@Syed Ganga Din Pakistan had conducted 500 successful tests of different weapons while india don't. lol

I wish my daughter joins armed forces. I wish I would have a son to join my Fathers regiment The 51 Lancers "The Silver Eagles" who participated with Alkhalid tanks in the parade. 51 Lancers were given the title "Silver Eagles" during 1971 war when they had to fire on enemy fighters while on board the trains.

Good show & good pictures....except for last pic...Soldiers marching in haphazard fashion....no synchronisation at all!!!

51 Lancers The Silver Eagles During November 1971 while moving to its operational area in Chishtian Sector the regiment shot down two enemy Hunter aircrafts and captured one of the pilots Flt. Lt Vikrim Singh. During this acting, two sowars of the regiment embraced shahadat. Sitara-i-Jur'at was awarded to Maj Tariq Baig (Commanding Officer Train) and Tamgha-i-Jur'at was awarded to Sowar Ghulam Abbas posthumously. The regiment was also given the title of Silver Eagles.

I can't see any common people in the audience? Where is the people?

@Syed Ganga Din "I hope all this equipment will work when needed" Much better than the old Russian junk on display in Indian parade.

i love u Pakistan's army

Where are the common people?

These pictures depict much better view than the PTV cameras which make it worse. I thought I was watching old documentary :)

May ALLAH be our Protector. General Raheel a true soldier.

Pakistan Zindabad

excellent

well done!

Well done!

Some more pictures, particularly some long/extra long shots showing the scale, massiveness of the venue with people would have been nice, good pictures though.

dont see any audience.. is anybody allowed to see??

@sana Indian army knows and very well handled the enemies more than once and lets not forget the breaking up of the country in half for good! Not to mention the surrender and capture of the largest army personals in the history!!! Or may be was never taught to you in your country's history?

Pakistan Tujhe Salaam

@Truth On the other side, go google "youm-e-pakistan 23 MArch Parade and you can see the full details.

I like watching missiles, parades and the disciplined marching. Whether it's India or Pakistan. Nice going guys!

Wonderful parade. Pakistan zindabad!

Brilliant! thanks for bringing this national event back. We need some Patriotism back..

@Syed Ganga Din you are awesome Syed Ganga Din !!!! :)

@Einstein Babar Indian is spending money in space research now.

good luck

Hope Chinese president XI Zinping was seeing the ceremony on his TV in Beijing.

@Jay Patel I think they were not allowed due to security reasons.

Great Display. Congrats to Pakistan! No need to bash each other, may both India and Pakistan live in harmony forever. British divided us, to make us weak, and we still haven't learnt anything after all those years. Every opportunity we get, we bash each other. Sometimes it just better to ignore an ignorant person... I can assure you, Pakistani and Indians get along just OK, outside their homeland....

@sudhi agreed. It was used to be a very synchronized placement and movement and specially on this particular day .

look at the last photograph.... Level of drill not impressive...

@Syed Ganga Din today is the need and it is working. Take my words on that

The good part is this is happening after a long time. While experts might debate on the timing, money and all.....but things like these are very important to ensure that the citizens of the country gather behind their army and feel proud of their country. This is a statement to the world by a very confident Pakistan. May you have this every year.

Why I cannot see MADE IN CHINA anywhere..

@Pervez India is great at insurgencies and that's what caused the break up , fighting an enemy that was hard to identify until he fired the shot. Pakistan Army did a superb job given the large tracts of areas and limited resources it had at it's disposal . And as for what is taught in Pakistan about history , it's certainly not "Mahabharata" , the standard Indian textbook of History !

superb day of my life i will never forget this day in my life i was their....

@rehan That's why India is growing dude. See the development in India.

Undoubtedly,this parade after a gap of seven years will certainly go a long way in silencing our foes in and out of the country.

Very Good. thank you for your services to our great nation.

Yes no need to bash each other, enough damage is done already. We can live side by side in peace and prosperity with open borders InshAllah one day.

@Asim never open borders. With China, Afghanistan and Iran, yes.

I watched the pakistan day parade and must say, I was impressed. I did not know that kind of advanced armoury pakistan armed forces had.

Long live Pakistan and its formidable Armed Forces

This is where we are suppose to show our support and love for our Armed Forces and our country,even some Indians are showing us respect,for that I am thankful to all the Indians for their nice comments.It is however not polite and completely uncalled for to make smart remarks towards India,lets show some respect and save those ugly comments for another day.

@rehan needless to so no more, you proved my point thank you!

Pride of Pakistan, the Al-Khalid tank, along with the Shaheen II missile. Loved the pictures!

Pakistan Zindabad!

Well everything looks good. I think its done to symbolise its strength like INDIA Does. But I see there is lack of Preperation. its clearly visible from last pic where Soldiers are marching , its not synchronized. Everything is done in urgency. Next time please prepare well soldiers. From INDIAN

I just found this pakistani forum and saw the parade on a pakistani channel. I was surprised because our media depict wrong picture of your country. It is good to see other side to get true picture. I can see pakistan armed forces are very strong. The J 17 display was very impressive and awe inspiring.

PAKISTAN ZINDABAD!! Great pictures dawn.com, thank you so much and wish we could have all been there to cheer out brave military on ! We salute and honour our courageous PAF, PNS, ARMY, COAST GUARD AND MARINES ... may you always be protected when you bravely defend our land and people. BTW, the commandoes in white look like astronauts... maybe preparing for Pakistan's space venture to Mars? : ))

Can someone tell us about the money spent on this fanfare?? As far as I remember this "ritual" was ceased as the expenditure of holding such parades was massive. But who cares the tax payers bear the bill

Great parade , our heads are held high again .. This has to take place more often ... as you can see our soldiers are not marching in straight lines ... lack of practice ..I suppose ...

Pakistan zindabad