Pakistan's Olympic Day Organising Committee met for the first time earlier this month ©POA

The Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) has held its first meeting of the Olympic Day 2021 Celebration Organising Committee in Lahore, planning out a busy series of events to mark the annual celebration.

This meeting was held at the University of Management and Technology and chaired by Ibrahim Hasan Murad, chairman of the POA Education Commission and chairman of the Olympic Day 2021 Celebration Organising Committee.

Plans were laid out in cooperation with the POA President Syed Arif Hasan, taking into account the current COVID-19 pandemic.

POA's second painting competition has been launched on social media already, with the rest of the events set to take place on Olympic Day - June 23 - or later.

On Olympic Day, there will be a workshop on the Olympic Movement and Olympism at the University of Management and Technology, Lahore; a table tennis exhibition competition at Bagh-e-Jinnah; a short documentary on the Pakistan Olympic Museum which will be launched on the POA's social media; and tree planting by athletes and Olympians at the university too.

Further tree planting is set to be held on June 25 in Nagarparkar and on June 27 and 28 in Karachi.

Nagarparkar is also set to host and Olympic Day Run and archery exhibition competition on June 25.

Finally, Karachi is scheduled to host sea and beach cleaning on June 27 and 28 respectively.

Olympic Day marks the foundation of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) - when former IOC President Pierre de Coubertin announced his intentions to revive the Olympic Games, on June 23 in 1894.

It has been celebrated annually since 1948 and was recommended in the 1978 Olympic Charter to be part of all National Olympic Committees' calendar.