Punjab Youth Festival
Annual sports festival held in Pakistan
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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 20 October 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]
| Punjab Youth Festival پنجاب یوتھ فیسٹیول | |
|---|---|
 Punjab Youth Festival 2014 | |
| Venue | National Hockey Stadium |
| Location | Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan |
| Start date | October 20, 2012 |
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]
