{"id":96,"date":"2015-09-22T05:33:17","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T05:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningpost.today\/eng\/?p=96"},"modified":"2015-09-22T05:33:17","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T05:33:17","slug":"youth-in-swat-celebrate-international-peace-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/youth-in-swat-celebrate-international-peace-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth in Swat celebrate International Peace Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Fazal Khaliq\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MINGORA: Youth activists, students and civil society members marked the International Peace Day here on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ceremony was organised by Peace for New Generation to mark International Peace Day and was attended by youth, students and social activists in a large number.<\/p>\n<p>The theme of this year\u2019s commemoration is \u201cPartnerships for peace &#8212; dignity for all\u201d which is aimed at highlighting the importance of all segments of society to work together for peace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA society can only enjoy peace if everyone in it enjoys justice and human rights. Adopting violence to prevail peace is not the real solution,\u201d said Neelam Chattan, the chairperson of Peace for New Generation.<\/p>\n<p>She added that display of weapons in society nurtured violence in children minds.<\/p>\n<p>She said that education was the only for restoration of durable peace a society. \u201cFor peaceful society we have to hand pen instead of gun to the new generation,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>The speakers on the occasion expressed astonishment over celebrating wars and victories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCivilised and developed nations only celebrate their peace while we celebrate wars which I think is not the right way to do.<\/p>\n<p>Our war heroes are respectable for us but projecting them in a way to bind them with wars by our media is not suitable as I understand,\u201d said Bilawal Jamshed a youth activist.<\/p>\n<p>The social activists said that people in Swat saw the ugly face of terrorism and extreme violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand the meaning of peace in true sense as we have been affected by war and violence. Our elders, youth and children all can feel the importance of peace and want it in our area,\u201d said Ahmad Shah, a social activist, who was chief guest on the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fazal Khaliq\u00a0 MINGORA: Youth activists, students and civil society members marked the International Peace Day here on Tuesday.\u00a0 The ceremony was organised by Peace for New Generation to mark International Peace Day and was attended by youth, students and social activists in a large number. The theme of this year\u2019s commemoration is \u201cPartnerships for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[56,54,13,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}