Hiroshima / Nagasaki Day
- In commemoration of Hiroshima Day (August 6), the anti-nuclear groups held public rallies and seminars in Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and other cities. Even though active participants were only in the hundreds, these rallies drew favourable response from the much larger number of citizens who witnessed them. There was sympathy if not solidarity! Subsequent rallies commemorated the bombing of Nagasaki (on August 9). A unique feature marking these events was the sympathetic and helpful role (as opposed to their usual repressive role) played by the police all along the procession routes.
- In Karachi, the demonstrations organised by ACAAR included a public rally and procession which after marching from the press club through the busy commercial area of Saddar, dispersed at the Press Club on 6th August.
- Another rally was held by over 300 working children and their working parents in theworking class area of Orangi on 9th August. Anti-nuclear leaflets and ìAtom Bomb ki Kahaniî in Urdu were also distributed among the public.
- Peace activists from Pakistan also attended the peace conference held in Japan on Hiroshima day, which helped them to generate more resources and ideas like peace gifts, videos, banners, paper cranes, books, photographs, brochures etc. These things have been shared with peace groups in other cities including Islamabad-Rawalpindi, Karachi, Multan, Faisalabad, Abbotabad, Hyderabad, and Lahore. Much of the material will be used in a peace museum, which is being planned in Islamabad by the participating organisations.
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