Punjab Youth Festival

Punjab Youth Festival (Urdu: پنجاب یوتھ فیسٹیول) is a sports festival held annually in Punjab, Pakistan. Chief Minister of the Punjab Shahbaz Sharif inaugurated it on October 20, 2012. The opening ceremony was held on that day in the National Hockey Stadium, Lahore. During the ceremony, 42,813 students sang the National Anthem in what became a Guinness World Record (GWR) for the highest number of people to have ever sung a national anthem in a live gathering.[1] The previous record had been held by India, in which fifteen thousand people had participated in an anthem singing.[2]

Former logo
Not to be confused with Punjab Sports Festival.
Punjab Youth Festival پنجاب یوتھ فیسٹیول
Punjab Youth Festival 2014
VenueNational Hockey Stadium
LocationLahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Start dateOctober 20, 2012 (2012-10-20)

On 21 December 2013 member National Assembly Hamza Shahbaz Sharif and Provincial Minister for Sports & Youth Affairs Rana Mashhood Ahmed Khan unveiled the logo of Punjab Youth Festival 2014 at Gymnasium of Punjab Sports Board Lahore.[3][4]

References
  1. "Bid to create world record of singing anthem". Dawn. October 20, 2012. Retrieved October 20, 2012.
  2. "Anthem-singing youth set new world record". The Express Tribune. 21 October 2012. Retrieved 21 October 2012.
  3. "Hamza unveils Punjab Youth Festival logo". Pakistan Today. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
  4. "Hamza, Mashhood unveil logo of Punjab Youth Festival 2014". FrontierPost. 21 December 2013. Archived from the original on 24 December 2013. Retrieved 22 December 2013.

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