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India celebrated its 78th Independence Day on Thursday, and Pakistan celebrated theirs a day before, on Wednesday. While the countries celebrate every year, the day also reminds many of the horrors of Partition.
This year however, heart-warming videos from London showing Indians and Pakistanis celebrating together, singing the national anthems of both the countries, have gone viral.
A Pakistani singer Amir Hashmi organised the event at London’s Piccadilly Circus to spread the message of peace and love, and Farid Qureshi, a journalist with Pakistan’s Ary News, shared videos from the event on his Instagram. The videos have gone viral now.
The caption of one of the videos Qureshi posted said, “‘Divided by Britain, United in Britain’. Pakistanis and Indians celebrating Independence Day together. In this video, the audience shows respect to India’s National Anthem. The previous video was of Pakistan’s national anthem, equally respected by both Pakistanis and Indians at Piccadilly Circus, thanks to singer Amir Hashmi.”
The video has garnered over 4.2 million views.
Here’s the other video Qureshi mentioned in the previous post. He posted this one saying, ““Divided by Britain, United in Britain” Pakistanis and Indians celebrating Independence Day together, in this video audience showing respect to Pakistan’s National Anthem, next video is of India’s national anthem equally respected by both Pakistanis and Indians at Piccadilly Circus and the credit goes to Singer Amir Hashmi.”
This video was viewed over 534K times.
Qureshi also posted a small interview of Hashmi.
Many social media users pointed out the irony of celebrating the Independence days of India and Pakistan in London. A user said, “Now this is Irony. Celebrating independence day in the same country Who we got rid of and happy😂” Another Instagram user commented, “This what Educated people do….🇮🇳🇵🇰”
