One of the most famous annual festivals, the National Horse and Cattle Show is also held in Spring in the Fortress Stadium.
During the week long activities main events included unity show, army band display, calisthenics, cavalcade of livestock, grey hound race, folk dance, tent pegging, motorcycle trick-riding by the military police, bullock cart race, horse and camel dance and free fall by Army paratroopers.
Girl students of Junior Model School, sang lilting national songs. The show wound up with the spectacular free fall display by a group of Army commandos who landed with pinpoint accuracy on the target area inside the stadium from a dizzying height of 10,000 feet
From February till March horse & cattle shows are held in different agricultural centers of Pakistan. The famous ones being at remount stadium Sahiwal horse show , Dera Ismail Khan horse and cattle show, Sibi mela and Lahore. Such shows are held to provide an opportunity to breeders to exhibit their stock and ex- change views and learn about cattle and horse breeding.