LAHORE, Sep 27: Indian freedom fighter Bhagat Singh’s 118th birth anniversary was celebrated in Lahore High Court in Pakistan today with a demand to award him the highest civilian honours of both the countries.

Bhagat Singh was born on September 27, 1907 in undivided India’s Banga village of Lyallpur, which is now called Faisalbad, about 130 kms west of Lahore.

The Bhagat Singh Memorial Foundation chairman Imtiaz Rasheed Qureshi, who wore a shirt with Bhagat Singh’s picture on it, along with other lawyers of the high court cut a cake at the lawns of the Lahore High Court and chanted peace slogans.

Qureshi, chief guest advocate Raja Zulqarnain and Pak-India Business Council head Noor Muhammad Kasuri and others paid rich tributes to Bhagat Singh at the event.

Calling Singh a “common hero

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