KARACHI: The 8th Lakson Investments SOP Unified Marathon under Special Olympics Pakistan was organized at DHA Phase-8 near the beach in which a 21km marathon, 10 and 5km races and 1km unified walk took place in which a large number of men, women, seniors, artists, athletes also participated alongside special athletes. People from different walks of life, representatives of educational, social, charitable, and business institutions and organizations, dignitaries and foreign diplomats participated, while the wheelchair walk of special people was the focus of special attention of the participants.

Special children including the dumb, deaf and mentally challenged special people also made their presence felt in the marathon. The purpose of the marathon was to show solidarity with the special people. SOP ambassador Sarwat Geelani and musician Faisal Kapadia also participated. In the opening ceremony of the marathon, Iqbal Lakhani was the chief guest, while in the closing ceremony, Faisal Bank President and CEO Yusuf Hussain was the chief guest, along with the chairperson of Special Olympics Pakistan, Ronak Lakhani, who distributed prizes among the successful participants and distributed medals and cash prizes of Rs 15,000 to the first position winners, Rs 10,000 to the second position and Rs 5,000 to the third position winners.

Published in The Daily National Courier, February, 27 2023

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