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Pakistan Day

Dark green and white: the flag of Pakistan on buildings, badges and painted faces, and a military parade in Islamabad.

March Past by the Military Contingent
Photo: Imniazi001, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The colours of Pakistan Day

Pakistan Day marks the Lahore Resolution of 23 March 1940, which called for a separate homeland for the Muslims of British India, and the day in 1956 when the country became a republic. A parade is held in Islamabad, and air force jets trail green and white smoke. The flag is dark green with a white crescent and star and a white stripe at the hoist. The green stands for the Muslim majority and the white stripe for religious minorities; the crescent is read as progress and the star as light. Buildings are strung with green lights, and children wear green and white clothes and flag badges. The same colours come out again on Independence Day, 14 August.

#01411CPakistan greenThe field of the flag.
#FFFFFFFlag whiteThe stripe for minorities, and the crescent and star.
#2E8B57Light greenStrings of lights on buildings.

Values are fair approximations, not official shades.

Read about the colours

GreenThe national colour.WhiteThe stripe and the crescent.

Also part of it, and being written: Shades of green (Pakistan green is a very dark shade.).

About this page

Written by the Rang desk with AI assistance. Background: "Pakistan Day" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

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