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Midnight vigil for peace planned on border

The Indo-Pak Friendship Society, headed by veteran journalist and Rajya Sabha member Kuldip Nayar, will hold a midnight vigil on the India-Pakistan border near Attari on the night of August 14 and 15 to promote peace and friendship between the two countries.

Nayar, former high commissioner to the United Kingdom, said hundreds of civil liberties activists, intellectuals, journalists and film personalities will participate holding lighted candles in the annual event. People from across the border are also expected to join the celebrations.

Eminent film personalities, including Gulzar, Farooq Sheikh and Raj Babbar, are also to participate in the vigil to be preceded by a cultural programme.

The participants seeks to impress upon the governments of both countries that they desist from entering an arms race and, instead, accord priority to the more pressing issues of removing poverty, unemployment corruption in public life. They would aim to and provide proper basic education and health care to the millions of poor.

According to Nayar, the vigil would also call for elimination of nuclear arms and reach an agreement involving pending issues through negotiations.

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