(170323) — QUETTA, March 23, 2017 (Xinhua) — A Pakistani boy poses for a photo with a machine gun during a military exhibition held to mark Pakistan’s Republic Day in Quetta, southwest Pakistan, on March 23, 2017. Pakistan Day, or Republic Day, is a national holiday in Pakistan to commemorate March 23, 1940 when a resolution was passed in Lahore, now Pakistan’s eastern city, to demand a separate homeland for the Muslims of the British Indian Empire. (Xinhua/Irfan) (zw) RSS.