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Murree with a curry: Pakistan alcohol booms

No it's true............ all are not potent enough to be smoked ...it will be more off like ghass fhuss


Good one will see.....while my butter/cake is being made :azn::partay::D:P
I think its been two years since i smoked my last joint :D

I never really researched how it was mase my buddy offered me i smoked it saw dragons and angels and dozed off after a while

Wo din hay aur aj ka din us tarah ki pursakon raat kabhi nahi i slept like a baby and woke up so refreshed
 
we have never seen a drunk killing or suicide blasting yet . but Islamist are daily blasting and killing thousands monthly . ban the real thing religious extremism not alcohol .
Ignorance and hunger for power and money.... Religious extremism is a not so true term. Those people are limited in numbers, people now a days know what they are doing and why, they just need ignorant cows to walk on their agenda..
 
Ignorance and hunger for power and money.... Religious extremism is a not so true term. Those people are limited in numbers, people now a days know what they are doing and why, they just need ignorant cows to walk on their agenda..
sir jii
unko sharab pila do theek ho jaay gay trust me :partay:
 
G.O.P was collecting over 3 billion dollars per year in taxes on alcohol before that buffoon put a ban on it, only thing the ban did was drive the alcohol sales underground depriving GOP of 3 billion/yr in extra badly needed dollars.
 
G.O.P was collecting over 3 billion dollars per year in taxes on alcohol before that buffoon put a ban on it, only thing the ban did was drive the alcohol sales underground depriving GOP of 3 billion/yr in extra badly needed dollars.
3 billions was in late 70s sir jee they can collect now huge amount if they just allowed it . we users do not give FLYING shit to ban . when we need its just a call or miss call to guy . gher de jay ga
once i order 16 bottles the guys bring them from 80km drive to my door step . jis ne peeni hai wo piyee ga gov kuch nhi ker sakti .
 
once i order 16 bottles the guys bring them from 80km drive to my door step . jis ne peeni hai wo piyee ga gov kuch nhi ker sakti .
Where in KSA or in Pakistan? Lalay hath k sath pata nahien kiya kiya kaat dyen gey Saudi walay....baaz ajaoo...:astagh:
 
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Murree with a curry: Pakistan alcohol booms
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Pakistani worker checks a line of beer cans at the Muree Brewery Company in Rawalpindi. PHOTO: AFP

RAWALPINDI: At Murree Brewery, home of Pakistan’s national lager, vintage copper boilers belch odorous fumes as they churn out 10 million litres of beer each year.

Hundreds of tons of gin and whisky are stored in climate-conditioned cellars, shielded from the pummelling sun.

Whether it’s beer produced by the crateful in Murree’s venerable red brick brewery — opposite the powerful army’s headquarters in Rawalpindi — or wine discreetly fermented in a bedroom, alcohol sales are booming in “teetotalitarian” Pakistan.

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Strangers to the Islamic Republic may be surprised that the country industriously — and at Murree openly — produces such quantities of booze, despite it being forbidden to 97% of the population.

But although Pakistani Muslims are banned from drinking alcohol, topers take advantage of the fact that the country’s minorities, mainly Hindus and Christians, face no such prohibition, and often snaffle up their quota.

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And so although officially only three million adults can buy alcohol, the country’s three breweries must work hard to please the nation’s enthusiastic tipplers.

Murree produces two cask-aged whiskies and a gin dyed an electric blue — not coincidentally exactly the shade of bottles containing its more internationally renowned counterpart, Bombay Sapphire.

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Founded by the British in 1860 and now Parsee-owned, Murree brewery has been burnt down by Muslim protesters, temporarily shut down in an extremist purge and and continues to survive prohibition, which was imposed in the 1970s.

Far from bowed, it flourishes as one of Pakistan’s most successful companies, with an annual growth of between 15% to 20%, a rarity in a country regularly wracked by extremist violence.

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“There is no risk as such, because we are a very very legal entity — one of the biggest taxpayers in this country,” said Major Sabih-ur-Rehman, a brewery executive.

“It is in the interest of everybody that the Murree brewery as a legal business should flourish and continue.”

With cans priced at 300 rupees ($3) on the legal market in a country where the average salary is 13,000 ($130), the brewery caters mainly to a Muslim elite willing to break the rules.

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Tahir Ahmed, a therapist specialising in addiction, who is worried about the rise in alcoholism, says that off licence stores “sell the booze to the people who can afford it, and only Muslims can”.

“The middle class is steeped in Islamic morality, but the upper class are getting richer, and it is a new norm that if you invite someone for dinner you will be serving alcohol. It is socially expected.”

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Well stocked bars at birthday parties, dinners awash with Italian wines and discreet “car-bars” in the parking lots of wedding halls are supplied by a thriving blackmarket that also relies on vast foreign imports.

“The main source of smuggling is through Dubai on launches crossing the sea,” a customs official who did not wish to be named told AFP.

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Smugglers are able to bring in entire containers by paying off officials, while sometimes unscrupulous diplomats sell a part of their legal quota to bootleggers.

An Asian embassy in Islamabad once ran its own wine shop, according to former customers.

Buying on the blackmarket raises prices — a bottle of Murree gin can cost $20 even (more than double its official cost), even when bootleggers dilute the spirit. An ordinary bottle of table wine starts at $40.

Cheap and dangerous moonshine is also available, often drunk with fatal consequences by the poor during festivals.

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But wealthier amateurs, fed up with the variable quality of bootlegged alcohol, have taken to making their own wines at home.

With no grape harvest or cave, Hassan makes do with buying litres of grape juice, sugar and enzymes, which he mixes in huge glass cylinders.

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For his white wine, he presses kilos of oranges and white grapes, which he brightens with raisins. All done discreetly in his guest bedroom.

“It is a fairly simple process, but you have to make sure everything is kept very clean, sanitise everything,” explains the thirty-something connoisseur.

“It’s a nice hobby, it’s fun to make and drink what you made with friends”, he adds.

Although a hobby that’s punishable by 80 lashes, this viticulturist is undeterred. The penalty has never been applied.


Prohibition never works! Whether it is government enforced or the pulpit (mullah) condemned.

So bottoms up to you Imran Khan and your family.

Cheers to you!

Personally I abstain due to religious and common sense grounds. But on the other hand, I am neither the first one to caste the first stone. I believe in freedom of personal choice, my job is just to relay the message through advice and example. ... :)
 
Where in KSA or in Pakistan? Lalay hatah k sath pata nahien kiya kiya kaat dyen gey Saudi walay....baaz ajaoo...:astagh:
multan main yaar

Prohibition never works! Whether it is government enforced or the pulpit (mullah) condemned.

So bottoms up to you Imran Khan and your family.

Cheers to you!

Personally I abstain due to religious and common sense grounds. But on the other hand, I am neither the first one to caste the first stone. I believe in freedom of personal choice, my job is just to relay the message through advice and example. ... :)
USA have more better policy makers then pakistan more educated then pakistanis they banned it and failed

here when mullah up-rise Bhutto banned alcohol to make them happy while there are dozens of proves bhutoo drink himself . just because he want to ease tension for his gov he did it
 
multan main yaar


USA have more better policy makers then pakistan more educated then pakistanis they banned it and failed

here when mullah up-rise Bhutto banned alcohol to make them happy while there are dozens of proves bhutoo drink himself . just because he want to ease tension for his gov he did it
Exactly... any prohi
multan main yaar


USA have more better policy makers then pakistan more educated then pakistanis they banned it and failed

here when mullah up-rise Bhutto banned alcohol to make them happy while there are dozens of proves bhutoo drink himself . just because he want to ease tension for his gov he did it

Yes; Prohibition leads to hypocrisy. Alcohol is technically a drug. You can never stop anyone from taking it. It is ultimately a personal choice.

Ban drugs... you will still find people willing to get stoned/high irrespective

Ban alcohol... you will likewise always find people willing to get smashed irrespective

Funny enough... here in the West you find a 20 something old drunk ... people view that person as cool or just having fun. But if you see a 40 something or older drunk publicly... the same society here views that person as a looser... a funny observation.
 
Indians and Pakistanis getting along o_O
Sharab na woh kaam ker dikhya jo koi or na ker saka :p:
 
Here only hash from Kashmir is called garda, generally quite hard, have to soften it by lightly toasting it before crushing, potent stuff. Himachal and other hilly areas make a different kind of hash, and that is the best in the world. :smokin:

we cook garda in palm of hand by keep rubbing it

Its everywhere in our street in Islamabad :D
Shit is everywhere
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there are friking 2-3feet tall weeds in our galli

grows everywhere :rofl:

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ok, could be, there are many ways to extract it but with the real ones in the mountains, you can just rub the fresh females :angel: for instant maal.

only when the sun is at its highest can do that
1;00 is perfect time to go to garden and get sticky fingers :police:
 
This writer don't seem to know the reality. highest consumption of alcohol is not in elite class but it is consumed in villages on people Deras where no one to ask them what they are doing. 20% of the whole population consume alcohol though it is not on regular basis but consumed more on events e.g weddings , urs etc
 

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