Yalda:The Panoramic Mirror of Friendship, Coexistence and Hospitality
We are on the eve of the last evenings of the autumn of the year 2024. This year we are highly honoured to celebrate the ancient Iranian event of Yalda in our friendly, brotherly and neighbourly country of Pakistan along with the other countries with which we share civilizational commonalities and links.
The Yalda Night, or as called in the Iranian folklore, Chele, is the longest night of the year and the beginning of the light and the rebirth of brilliance. Yalda is a turning point in the beautiful nature, at the moment of the winter solstice, which connects the leafy autumn to the ermine winter.
During the millennia and throughout the old history, at the very beginning of the cold winter, this night has been regarded as an opportunity to seize the treasure and warmth of the fam...