JAMMU, Nov. 9 -- J&K Tourism in collaboration with the IKA sports & events and patnitop Development Authority organised the fifth edition of patnitop Marathon as 500 athletes from various parts of of the UT and country took part in the event.

The marathon was flagged off by Joint Director Tourism Jammu Aijaz Qaiser, JKAS here on Sunday morning celebrating fitness, resilience and unstoppable spirit of Jammu & Kashmir. Virender Manyal, JKAS Chief Executive Officer Patnitop Development Authority , Sukhbir Singh , DySP SDPO Chenani , Pankaj Sasan , JKAS DD Tourism , Arif Lone, JKAS AD Tourism NHW and Kapil Arora founder of IKA sports and events were also present at the flagging off event early Sunday morning .

The flag off event from Main Mea...