Ramadan 'police' target Pakistan's cafe society

[zip]

So all those lacs of people who are working in hotel ,juice shop ,bakery and other fast food shops should not work in ramadan days ? What about a child who wants to eat a chocolate ? What about ill people who wants to drink clean bottled water ? What about aged people who want to eat outside because they dont want to give discomfort to their fasting family members ?
What about stability,control of desire for which ramadan stands ?

 

[Armstrong]

My cousin is a chain smoker if you have a will you can refrain from anything.

Indeed Sir ! I'm a chain 'food lover' myself and a chain 'water-lover' at that but when I fast none of that matters...except the water bit !

 

[shivajithesavior]

Nothing radical here.they were imposing the law.
Its illegal to publicly eat during ramzan.
And yes i am happy partition ha'pened or we had been singing bande matram and bowing to some monkey of elephant.

OK OK,I also don;t expect something good from countries based on religion


Jaisi Soch waise kanoon

 

[doublemaster]

So what is wrong in it , everyone has their right to live in there own way !!!


Did you have saw 3 Idiots , the boy always get confused between "D" and "B" .

In india some times you get killed for transporting a cow, eating beef.
Allow beef in India. It earned lot of money to India in export.
Allow every one to live in their way. Or tell Minority respect Majority.

 

[Armstrong]

So all those lacs of people who are working in hotel ,juice shop ,bakery and other fast food shops should not work in ramadan days ? What about a child who wants to eat a chocolate ? What about ill people who wants to drink clean bottled water ? What about aged people who want to eat outside because they dont want to give discomfort to their fasting family members ? What about stability,control of desire for which ramadan stands ?

All of that goes on in Pakistan and no one questions it ! The only time a few people have a problem with this is when someone perfectly healthy is munching down on a sandwich or gulping down on a bottle of water in the midst of about 10 dozen people who are fasting - that insensitivity is what ticks most people off but even practically no one calls him out...they just ignore him because he/she didn't have the decency of doing this in private. For example in my office building a lot of people don't fast; some aren't Muslims whereas others - like me - aren't that religious so what we do is that we go down stairs buy something off the canteen (yes its open !) and do this in the privacy of our cubicles or in the cars in the parking lot ! And we do have the bearderd Tablighi Jammat types in our midst but no one bothers us....! At the end of the day its about 'decency'....don't gulp on a Pepsi in front of a person who hasn't had anything to drink since 3 a.m and wouldn't till 7p.m.

The point being don't take one isolated event as representative of the Pakistani society as a whole.

 

[sanddy]

Pizza Hut in Pakistan ditches all-you-can-eat Ramadan offer to curb 'unrestrained gluttony' - Telegraph
By Rob Crilly, Islamabad 07/08/2012

Pizza Hut has withdrawn its all-you-
can eat Ramadan offer in Pakistan
prompting howls of fury from
thousands of hungry Muslim families
used to breaking their fast with plate
after plate of deep pan or thin crust.

Instead the chain said it wants to
reduce "gluttony" by limiting
customers to a single regular pizza in
its Ramadan Fiesta offer.

In previous years Pizza Hut restaurants
would be packed for the evening meal
of Iftar, as diners starving from a day
of fasting would fill their bellies with
pizza after pizza for as little as £7 – a
figure industry analysts said was unsustainable.

Furious fast food fans have taken to
social media to complain at the new,
cheaper deal, which is still advertised
as an "all-you-can" offer. "Pathetic and a misleading deal.
It's
only one regular pizza with bottomless
Pepsi, not all you can eat," said one
post on Pizza Hut Pakistan's Facebook
page.

Imran Khan, a student and regular
customer at a branch in Karachi, said:
"The place was always packed in the
evening. For a lot of people it had
become a Ramadan tradition so this
change is very sad."

Marya Khan, of Pizza Hut Pakistan, said
the offer was more in keeping with the
spirit of the holy month of Ramadan. "The former all-you-can-eat format
served as an unrestrained invitation to
gluttony and waste, colliding with the
very spirit of Ramadan," she said. "For those who do not consider Iftar
deal as a means of just gorging after
sunset, then the new Ramadan Fiesta
offered by Pizza Hut is a well-balanced
and valuable deal to enjoy finest pizza
at a value price."

Pizza Hut in Pakistan was one of many
fast food restaurants to have benefited
from a move away from the traditional
Iftar meal of spiced fruit salad,
chickpeas and dates.

As an alternative, many people are
turning to Chinese buffets or burger
joints although pakoras – vegetable or
chicken fritters - remain the most
popular way to break the Ramadan
fast, according to a recent survey by Gallup Pakistan.

 

[zip]

@armstrong
when it is a law then it is already generalised ..i am not blaming people but the law and its authenticity

 

[Safriz]

Who is this them you speak of? If you have such a problem with this them why do you live among them (provided you are talking about the people I think you are) ???

Exactly..
I keep my identity intact..
Still wear shalwar qameez in public,and go to mosque..
And above all i am sincere towards my country of residence.

Pizza Hut in Pakistan ditches all-you-can-eat Ramadan offer to curb 'unrestrained gluttony' - Telegraph
By Rob Crilly, Islamabad 07/08/2012

Pizza Hut has withdrawn its all-you-
can eat Ramadan offer in Pakistan
prompting howls of fury from
thousands of hungry Muslim families
used to breaking their fast with plate
after plate of deep pan or thin crust.

Instead the chain said it wants to
reduce "gluttony" by limiting
customers to a single regular pizza in
its Ramadan Fiesta offer.

In previous years Pizza Hut restaurants
would be packed for the evening meal
of Iftar, as diners starving from a day
of fasting would fill their bellies with
pizza after pizza for as little as £7 – a
figure industry analysts said was unsustainable.

Furious fast food fans have taken to
social media to complain at the new,
cheaper deal, which is still advertised
as an "all-you-can" offer. "Pathetic and a misleading deal.
It's
only one regular pizza with bottomless
Pepsi, not all you can eat," said one
post on Pizza Hut Pakistan's Facebook
page.

Imran Khan, a student and regular
customer at a branch in Karachi, said:
"The place was always packed in the
evening. For a lot of people it had
become a Ramadan tradition so this
change is very sad."

Marya Khan, of Pizza Hut Pakistan, said
the offer was more in keeping with the
spirit of the holy month of Ramadan. "The former all-you-can-eat format
served as an unrestrained invitation to
gluttony and waste, colliding with the
very spirit of Ramadan," she said. "For those who do not consider Iftar
deal as a means of just gorging after
sunset, then the new Ramadan Fiesta
offered by Pizza Hut is a well-balanced
and valuable deal to enjoy finest pizza
at a value price."

Pizza Hut in Pakistan was one of many
fast food restaurants to have benefited
from a move away from the traditional
Iftar meal of spiced fruit salad,
chickpeas and dates.

As an alternative, many people are
turning to Chinese buffets or burger
joints although pakoras – vegetable or
chicken fritters - remain the most
popular way to break the Ramadan
fast, according to a recent survey by Gallup Pakistan.

British tabloids are buttt hurt after getting exposed of lying on visa scandle.
Now on a mission of posting antk pakistan ,anti ramazan news..
Their websites should be vanned in pakistan by PTA.

look at the language usd 'howling muslims'.
As if muslims are wolves and jackles..

 

[zip]

If i am a muslim hotel owner i fast on ramadan and want to work in my hotel for children,ill people ,aged people as they may need my service in this fasting month ..whats wrong with that ?

 

[sanddy]

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[Safriz]

If i am a muslim hotel owner i fast on ramadan and want to work in my hotel for children,ill people ,aged people as they may need my service in this fasting month ..whats wrong with that ?

Nop nothing wrong.
But the restaurant raided isnt they type visited by old ill people...
Its young healthy punks,

 

[doublemaster]

Why this should be a news?

In India we celebrate beef ban just because Majority (Even though many hindus eat) thinks it holy and they want others to respect.
In Pak also they are doing same.

I blame pak for using islam pnly when they have benefit

 

[Safriz]

Why this should be a news?

In India we celebrate beef ban just because Majority (Even though many hindus eat) thinks it holy and they want others to respect.
In Pak also they are doing same.

I blame pak for using islam pnly when they have benefit

Dont you know,anything that happens in Pakistan has to be painted wrong..
Same thing elsewhere is fine,and if happens in west....dont you dare complaining.

 

[Emmie]

Why this should be a news?

In India we celebrate beef ban just because Majority (Even though many hindus eat) thinks it holy and they want others to respect.
In Pak also they are doing same.

I blame pak for using islam pnly when they have benefit

It has to be.. Anything that has a reason to bash Pakistan is a news for certain type of people.

 

[FaujHistorian]

if i smoke when you are around -----you are affected in health

if i eat when you are fasting-----you are not affected in any way......if you think you are tempted to eat, you should question the strength of your faith rather than my act of eating...

Bravo!

Right on bud!