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Let me start by saying this was not easy as I thought it would be. First I had to spend one hour only to ensure I got the right venue. It’s not like there were so many places to go over in a small town of Fateh Jang, but it was still a tough call to make b/w two venues. I had to confirm if the event took place at Fateh Jang Stadium or at Unique Sports Stadium. Here is how I confirmed that the event took place at Fateh Jang Stadium:
The Venue
Considering I got the venue to be correct, lets look at the size of the stadium and how much crowd capacity it has.
According to the measurements taken with Google Earth aswell as Mapchecking.com , Fateh Jang Stadium has an area of 358,654 sq ft (that can be used for holding crowd)
Using Jacob’s method, according to which in a very densely populated space, an individual takes up space of 5 sq ft or less. The stadium has a crowd capacity of almost 1,30,000 – 1,35,000. However it is to be noted that this based on the calculation for the above mentioned area.
Wasn’t an easy job but finally I found some good quality images to show how stage and venue was set up for the Jalsa.
Notice how far, stage has been set up from the Tree Line. We will measure the distance from Tree line to the stage and stage to the crowd area using houses as reference
The Crowd
Using the mosque (which is built in the stadium ground) as reference point, notice how dense is crowd towards the stage area while as you move towards the middle, you start to see empty area
Another video shared shows the same that while Ms Maryam safdar was delivering her speech, the area closer to the stage was densely crowded while after the mosque, we start to see all lot of empty space i.e crowd is dispersed / scattered
Another video shared by Siasat.pk shows the aerial view while Ms Maryam safdar was taking pledge from the audience:
Source
Jacob’s method demands that in order to measure the crowd it is best to divide the crowd into sector’s based on density.
Let’s see how our venue would look like
With that being done, lets look at the area :
In order to omit errors while taking measurement let’s just round up the number and say, area was 130,000 sq ft
With a jammed pack crowd density of 4 sq ft / person the calculation would look like this
130,000 sq ft / 4 sq ft = 32,500 individuals
Lets move onto the people who were standing or being seated on the sides of the ground.
Over the area of 16,000sq ft on both sides combined, with crowd density of 6 sq ft / person, number of individuals on the side will be 2500 – 2600
Let’s not forget a crowd of 100 to 200 folks who came just to get their share of chicken pulao …
Hope this puts everything to rest …..
Don’t forget that Fateh Jang has close proximity of Attock, Rawalpindi, Taxila hence it is not difficult to attract such crowd. I know people who traveled 70km to attend this jalsa….most of these folks were following the orders of local Malaks.
I will also add that above crowd was estimated to be present at it's peak and based on all lot of footages available, many started to leave the venue as soon as Maryam safdar was in the middle of her speech:
Let me start by saying this was not easy as I thought it would be. First I had to spend one hour only to ensure I got the right venue. It’s not like there were so many places to go over in a small town of Fateh Jang, but it was still a tough call to make b/w two venues. I had to confirm if the event took place at Fateh Jang Stadium or at Unique Sports Stadium. Here is how I confirmed that the event took place at Fateh Jang Stadium:
The Venue
Considering I got the venue to be correct, lets look at the size of the stadium and how much crowd capacity it has.
According to the measurements taken with Google Earth aswell as Mapchecking.com , Fateh Jang Stadium has an area of 358,654 sq ft (that can be used for holding crowd)
Using Jacob’s method, according to which in a very densely populated space, an individual takes up space of 5 sq ft or less. The stadium has a crowd capacity of almost 1,30,000 – 1,35,000. However it is to be noted that this based on the calculation for the above mentioned area.
The Setup
Wasn’t an easy job but finally I found some good quality images to show how stage and venue was set up for the Jalsa.
Notice how far, stage has been set up from the Tree Line. We will measure the distance from Tree line to the stage and stage to the crowd area using houses as reference
The Crowd
Using the mosque (which is built in the stadium ground) as reference point, notice how dense is crowd towards the stage area while as you move towards the middle, you start to see empty area
Another video shared shows the same that while Ms Maryam safdar was delivering her speech, the area closer to the stage was densely crowded while after the mosque, we start to see all lot of empty space i.e crowd is dispersed / scattered
Another video shared by Siasat.pk shows the aerial view while Ms Maryam safdar was taking pledge from the audience:
Source
Estimating the Crowd
Jacob’s method demands that in order to measure the crowd it is best to divide the crowd into sector’s based on density.
Let’s see how our venue would look like
With that being done, lets look at the area :
In order to omit errors while taking measurement let’s just round up the number and say, area was 130,000 sq ft
With a jammed pack crowd density of 4 sq ft / person the calculation would look like this
130,000 sq ft / 4 sq ft = 32,500 individuals
Lets move onto the people who were standing or being seated on the sides of the ground.
Over the area of 16,000sq ft on both sides combined, with crowd density of 6 sq ft / person, number of individuals on the side will be 2500 – 2600
Let’s not forget a crowd of 100 to 200 folks who came just to get their share of chicken pulao …
Hope this puts everything to rest …..
Don’t forget that Fateh Jang has close proximity of Attock, Rawalpindi, Taxila hence it is not difficult to attract such crowd. I know people who traveled 70km to attend this jalsa….most of these folks were following the orders of local Malaks.
I will also add that above crowd was estimated to be present at it's peak and based on all lot of footages available, many started to leave the venue as soon as Maryam safdar was in the middle of her speech:
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