FESTIVALS IN THE WORLD

National horse and cattle show - one of the biggest cultural event in Pakistan-is held at fortress stadium Lahore in the third week of February for five days. Activities in the event includes cattle races, cattle dances(horse dance, camel dance), folk music, folk dances(Punjabi bhangra), folk music, folk games(kabady),polo matches and livestock competitions featuring the best horses, mules, cattle, buffaloes, camels, sheep, goat and chickens. Milk competitions held among cows, buffaloes, goats.  The winners receive cash prizes, gold medals, and certificates. Several committees are responsible to make the arrangements for organizing these various events at the show. These festivals not only encourage the agricultural community through exhibitions of its products and cattle but also help the rich cultural and agricultural heritage of the province and the country These kinds of exhibitions are really useful and entertaining for any kind of culture. First of all it...

Basant  also known as spring festival or (Jashne e Baharan)is the most  popular and amazing festival which is celebrate in Punjab every year in  February, especially in traditional areas like Lahore and Kasur.  Mostly this festival is common in youngster. They have great craze to celebrate this festival. Youngsters celebrate this festival with great passion and enthusiasm. In this festival kite flying competition is held. People flying kites all day and night on the roof of their houses.kites consists of different beautiful colors, when sky is full  with such kites its seems very beautiful view on sky. Women on this day wearing a bright yellow dress. It is commonly observe that rest houses, hotels and house of relatives of the participants are fully pack with guests from all over the country. Moreover some five star hotels also arrange this function on their roof top for foreigners and other high class gentry.They also arrange variety of dishes wit...

Punjab:                 Punjabians has promote their culture in the Lok mela with wood crafts,traditional crafts including wood carving,stone carving,bone work,multani blue tiles,block printing,painting,khader weaving,darree weaving, lacquer art,and the most popular folk dance that is very popular in all over the world. Baluchistan:                          Baluchistan  promotes their culture with leather embroidery, crafts using date leaves and the famous dish "Sajji". Sindh:              People of Sindh  promote their culture with Sindhi dresses,that are very popular in all over the world.They also promote our painting,woodwork and clay models. KpK;            People of KPK promote their culture with metal crafts stone carving and the most popular food that is "Chapli Kabab". Kashmir: ...

Lok Mela is one of the most popular cultural event  in Pakistan that is held in every spring season in Shaker Parian,Islamabad. Lok Mela exhibit the cultural and traditions of Pakistan in beautiful maners. You can feel and experience the aroma  of Pakistan culture under one platform. Artist and performers get chance to participate and represent their cultural background.Every province has beautiful color designed section that represents the traditionally hand made craft,tasty food item,colorful dresses,home made painting ans clay models. This mela is also features live theater and musical nights on which people performing their traditional dance.This gives opportunity to visitors to see natural beauty of Pakistan and its culture.