ISLAMABAD:
Pakistan rang in 2025 with joyous events in big cities like Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi, with hopes and prayers for good health, prosperity and peace in the new year, as millions across the country exchanged greetings on social media platforms.
The New Year celebrations in Pakistan vary depending on personal preferences, regional traditions and cultural influences. While the festivities were not as widespread as in other countries around the world due to cultural and religious norms, many Pakistanis marked the occasion in their own ways.
On the occasion, the political leadership urged the nation to collectively strive for a better and stronger Pakistan in 2025 after reviewing the successes and failures of the past year to learn from it and strive for a better year ahead.
President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, in their separate messages, congratulated the Pakistani nation and the international community on the beginning of the New Year and hoped the New Year might bring peace, stability, progress and prosperity to the nation.
“I hope that the New Year will be a year of progress and prosperity and peace and stability at the global level. To get the country out of the challenges, the nation has to work with unity, discipline, continuous hard work and dedication,” Zardari said in his message.
“I pray that the sun of 2025 will rise with the promise of progress and prosperity for our country Pakistan. I also pray that in the New Year, we correct our individual and collective mistakes committed in the past year and make a new beginning and start a new bright future,” said Shehbaz.
At the global level, Shehbaz expressed the hope that the economic, political and law and order crises that the world faced in 2024 would be overcome. “May the new year prove to be the year of ending hunger, poverty, war, terrorism, crimes, sectarianism and class division from the world,” he added.
“I hope that in 2025, Palestine and IIOJK will be successful in their struggle for freedom,” he prayed.
