The Punjab Sports Festival 2012 with theme Punjab da Passion splashed into action here in a colourful opening ceremony at the National Hockey Stadium on Tuesday. This sporting extravaganza that started from tehil, district and divisional level has now entered into the final phase where winners of all the level competitions will lock horns for top honours.
In this provincial level competitions, general public, male and females schools, college, universities while special arrangements have also been made to showcase the skills of blind, special, deaf and dumb persons while veterans, bar association, departments, press club and corporate sector have also been involved in the final activity.
During the next 12 days competitions will be held in athletics, badminton, cricket, football, hockey, volleyball, kabaddi, karate, basketball, weightlifting, wrestling, taekwondo, marathon race and cycling.
Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif was the chief guest of the opening ceremony and declared the festival open while hockey Olympians Mohammad Saqlain, test cricketer Taufeeq Umar, athlete Shabana and seeral other prominent players of the province carried the flame to the caldarium. During the opening ceremony karate, PT, gymnastic were displayed while a large number of school and college children were brought to the National Hockey Stadium to make the venue looked filled.
