Islamabad – Pak Sahafat – Members of the Pakistani motorcyclists tourist-cultural caravan started their 26-day trip to various Iranian cities from the cultural city of Lahore with the slogan “Friendship of Two Neighbors and Development of Post-Crown Tourism” consisting of 13 people.
According to Pak Sahafat news agency on Friday, the House of Culture of our country in Lahore, as the cultural-scientific heart of Pakistan and the capital of Punjab, hosted a caravan of “Cross Root” club motorcyclists during the ceremony, and this sports caravan then started its journey with “Jafar Ronas”, the head of the Iranian Culture Agency.
Pakistani athlete riders began their 26-day trip to Iran with the slogan “Iran-Pakistan friendship and the development of post-Crown tourism” between two neighboring and Muslim countries in the presence of the Iranian Culture Agency.
Thirteen motorcyclists of the “Cross Root” club in Lahore, by participating in a welcoming ceremony held outside the House of Culture of Iran, announced their determination to strengthen public relations and cooperation between the two countries.
The head of our country’s culture house pointed to the importance of tourism development to strengthen relations between the two brother nations and said: Iran has a special place in the world in terms of history, life traditions, cultural, racial and linguistic diversity.
He added: The Western media has always tried to tarnish the cultural image of the two countries with selective and black news. Your efforts can reveal the original identity of the people with the culture of the two countries in the origin and destination.
Iran’s cultural attaché in Lahore, stating that Iran has seen many heroes, including the martyred Sardar Haj Qassem Soleimani, continued that the tomb of this great martyr of Islam who died in the US terrorist attack is located in the city of Kerman.
“Mukarram Khanatrin”, who is leading the Pakistan motorcycle team on a trip to Iran, said: Iran and Pakistan, which have much in common in history, culture, language and art, have great potential in the field of tourism that must be identified and used optimally.
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He referred to the memories of his last trip to Iran in 2019 before the Corona phenomenon and added that the Iranian people welcomed us so warmly on the way and in small and large cities that we decided to Let’s travel to this beautiful country with rich culture and ancient history.
At the end of the ceremony, Pakistani motorcyclists, following a common and ancient tradition of the two nations of Iran and Pakistan, under the Holy Quran, began their long and difficult journey to our country on the eve of winter.
Pakistani motorcyclists in their 26-day round trip to Iran with a distance of 6,500 km, along the route from Lahore to the zero point of the border between the two countries entered Taftan (Mirjavah) and from there to the cities of Zahedan, Bam, Kerman , Will travel to Yazd, Isfahan, Kashan, Qom, and Tehran.
A team of 16 Pakistani athlete motorcyclists in the summer of 2009, who named their caravan “My Friend Iran”, left for the Islamic Republic of Iran with the message of “peace and friendship” on the 72nd anniversary of the country’s independence.