{"id":61374,"date":"2020-02-13T13:54:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T08:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=61374"},"modified":"2020-02-13T13:54:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T08:54:48","slug":"khanpur-festival-starts-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/khanpur-festival-starts-tomorrow.html","title":{"rendered":"Khanpur Festival to start tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Haripur: Haripur Deputy Commissioner Nadeem Nasir has announced that the 3-day Khanpur Festival, organized to promote tourism at the water reservoir, is scheduled to start tomorrow (February 14), according to a news source. As per the publication, the waterside gala, which was originally named the \u2018Orange Festival\u2019, has been successfully conducted over the past three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/khanpur-dam-phase-3-to-be-completed-by-mid-december.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Khanpur Dam Phase 3 to be completed by mid-December (opens in a new tab)\">Khanpur Dam Phase 3 to be completed by mid-December<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The festival will\nfeature 100 stalls exhibiting local handicrafts, food items, cultural artifacts\nand locally grown varieties of oranges. In addition, the event will also\nfeature folk music, horse dance, Gatka Fights and literature on local history\nand culture. The much-famous para-gliding, boat riding and other sports\nactivities will also be part of the 3-day festival. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to the media, Commissioner Nasir said that ambassadors of several countries would be attending this festival. He also said that the event was meant to market the Khanpur Reservoir as a fine tourist attraction located at just a 40 minutes\u2019 drive from Islamabad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/monsoon-rains-fill-simly-khanpur-rawal-dams.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Monsoon rains fill Simly, Khanpur, Rawal Dams<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, sources\nclaimed that Punjab Minister for Housing and Urban Development Mian\nMehmoor-ur-Rasheed would be attending the festival as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haripur: Haripur Deputy Commissioner Nadeem Nasir has announced that the 3-day Khanpur Festival, organized to promote tourism at the water reservoir, is scheduled to start tomorrow (February 14), according to a news source. As per the publication, the waterside gala, which was originally named the \u2018Orange Festival\u2019, has been successfully conducted over the past three years. Read: Khanpur Dam Phase 3 to be completed by mid-December The festival will feature 100 stalls exhibiting local handicrafts, food items, cultural artifacts and locally grown varieties of oranges. In addition, the event will also feature folk music, horse dance, Gatka Fights and literature on local history and culture. The much-famous para-gliding, boat riding and other sports activities will also be part of the 3-day festival. Speaking to the media, Commissioner Nasir said that ambassadors of several countries would be attending this festival. He also said that the event was meant to market the Khanpur Reservoir as a fine tourist attraction located at just a 40 minutes\u2019 drive from Islamabad. Read: Monsoon rains fill Simly, Khanpur, Rawal Dams Additionally, sources claimed that Punjab Minister for Housing and Urban Development Mian Mehmoor-ur-Rasheed would be attending the festival as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":32838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15167],"tags":[15085,5643,61],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-61374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tourism","8":"tag-festival","9":"tag-khanpur-dam","10":"tag-tourism-2","11":"cat-15167-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Khanpur Festival starts tomorrow - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Khanpur Festival aims to promote tourism in the area.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/khanpur-festival-starts-tomorrow.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Khanpur Festival starts tomorrow - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Khanpur Festival aims to promote tourism in the area.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/khanpur-festival-starts-tomorrow.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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