ISLAMABAD- Islamabad city, once called by the foreign ambassadors and journalists as the 'Concrete Islands', having no signs of life but still faceted bureaucrats and high-rise concrete structures, witnessed an unprecedented warmth and liveliness on Thursday. The city, giving a carnival look and sense of tremendous enthusiasm, has been decorated with banners and billboards written with welcome slogans for the participants of the lawyers' Long March caravan, which is expected to reach the city an hour or two after the dawn on Friday. In addition, scores of camps have been set up along the Islamabad Highway and Suharwardy Road, the main arteries to the Capital City and route of the March, where the energetic youths are chanting slogans to induce enthusiasm among the passers-by to join hands in their struggle for the independent judiciary, which has been twice sacked by the adventurous dictator. While the activists of political parties and civil society are determined to win the battle, the office bearers of traders associations of the city have opened mouths of their purses to provide every sort of facilities to the participants of the March. "All the traders of the city have decided to participate in the March with their personal vehicles loaded with mineral water, chilled beverages, biscuits and other food stuffs", said Shafiq Abbasi, General Secretary, Aabpara Traders Association. He further said that 200 makeshift washrooms would be installed near Sitara Market and tens of vehicles would keep patrolling with the Long March caravan to take the needy to the facility. Every political party is trying to make sure their appearance in the struggle more than any other party, as if it was the only way of winning the nation's favour, and as if was the only cause on which the whole nation was unanimous, truly a situation the nation had long dreamt for. Jamil Abbasi, Member Central Executive Committee, Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI), said that they have arranged for providing lunch and dinner to more than a thousand people at Darbar Syed Sakhi Mehmood. Moreover, mineral water and cold beverages would be provided to the participants of the March throughout the city, Abbasi said, adding that 10000 PTI workers would welcome the caravan at Zero Point. Similarly, the Jumaat-e-Islami (JI) workers have set up welcome camps at the various entrances of the Federal Capital like Motorway Interchange and Zero Point, where appeals for joining the March caravan are being persistently made through loudspeakers. As a rare example of the nation's unanimity over the issue, this scribe observed police personnel requesting the civil society activists sitting in their camp, to affix to their bikes the stickers and flags bearing pro-justice and anti-Musharraf slogans. One of them, to whom I tried to talk to, assuring that his name would not be given, exclaimed, "Oh... No Do give it... the whole nation has stood by the lawyers... and we too". I really surprised to hear these remarks from the mouth of a 'jawan' of a force, which is always ruthlessly used to suppress popular struggles against the autocratic rulers.