Valentine’s Day Celebrations Banned All Across Pakistan: IHC

[MultaniGuy]

Good move.
It's against our religion and culture.
People should marry , not run after girl friends.

Agreed with you 100%.
Mash'Allah you said the right thing.

 

[shah1398]

We have already messed up our soft image by banning festivals like Basant and now V days...

We shud not compare Basant with V day. Baant was there and celebrated for decades even during 1965 war over Lahore (U know what I mean ) and it was banned mainly for safety reasons which was a good move indeed. But this V day is a very new BS brought in mainly after so called "Media ki Azadi". Before 2001 I literally did know nothing of what the heck is a V day but now even a small kid knows it all. And if banning V day makes other call me an extremist and ruins my soft image then so be it.

 

[Hollow Field]

We really have bigger fish to fry. Like the fat palla to our east

 

[Imran Khan]

Banned by old monk judges whom never have gf in life

 

[RIP Pak LAW]

We shud not compare Basant with V day. Baant was there and celebrated for decades even during 1965 war over Lahore (U know what I mean ) and it was banned mainly for safety reasons which was a good move indeed. But this V day is a very new BS brought in mainly after so called "Media ki Azadi". Before 2001 I literally did know nothing of what the heck is a V day but now even a small kid knows it all. And if banning V day makes other call me an extremist and ruins my soft image then so be it.

Take a chill pill, V-day is not harming anyone and Basant well we all know, PMLN deliberately banned it since it was a hit product of Musharaf which started to took International fame.

 

[The BrOkEn HeArT]

Thats why a normal person force to become like Trump.

 

[abdulbarijan]

Where frustrated Pakistani youth try their best to impress young females.

You seem like an old timer, these days .... atleast in university campuses, the frustration is at both sides of the field and so is the effort to impress each other.

Good move.
It's against our religion and culture.
People should marry , not run after girl friends.

Agreed ... Good move by the IHC ... However, it's also islamic to make it easy, so that people can get married. As far as that goes, the potential husband's family is looking for a model like girl, while the potential wife's family is looking for a millionaire whose 25 and handsome ... and that's even when both the guy and the gal are okay with marrying each other ...

So, when you have conditions like these, where getting married is perhaps one of the most difficult things ... and you add to that the constant bombardment of romance tv-series/ movies which portray "true love" and affairs (BTW also against islam/ values/ culture) and you somehow expect the youth won't act on what you've been practically programming them to do since the time they were born ? ... In addition, if a teen kid asks you ... why shouldn't I love someone and convince me how the concept of free love isn't superior to this marital system? ... Most parents would whoop their kids instead of convincing them ... sure they will act all high and mighty with the " it's against our culture argument" after whopping their rear ends ... but that's not exactly a convincing argument ... and most parents can't make a logical argument worth jack for their position .... which is why we're in this predicament to begin with ... The solution is to include something like a "marital studies" course by the time a student reaches puberty. But then again, we won't do that ... Root-cause analysis and taking steps to get rid of that root cause isn't exactly our style ...

 

[shah1398]

Take a chill pill, V-day is not harming anyone and Basant well we all know

Its only harming already ruined values of ours. How can I even bare that some random guy just walks to my daughter or sister and hands her over a red flower showing that he loves her (I wish it was just the love and not associated stuff that mainly run in back of mind of a.. ho..)

PMLN deliberately banned it since it was a hit product of Musharaf which started to took International fame.

Well if it had hit an international fame then why not PML(N) had cashed on it and used this already available paltform for their own good? Having said so, Punjab Govt had allowed limited Basant celebrations in designated places many at times. Here is quite a balanced article showing both sides of picture and U might find some surprising stuff too.

http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2015/12/08/why-is-basant-banned/

 

[livingdead]

You seem like an old timer, these days .... atleast in university campuses, the frustration is at both sides of the field and so is the effort to impress each other.

Agreed ... Good move by the IHC ... However, it's also islamic to make it easy, so that people can get married. As far as that goes, the potential husband's family is looking for a model like girl, while the potential wife's family is looking for a millionaire whose 25 and handsome ... and that's even when both the guy and the gal are okay with marrying each other ...

So, when you have conditions like these, where getting married is perhaps one of the most difficult things ... and you add to that the constant bombardment of romance tv-series/ movies which portray "true love" and affairs (BTW also against islam/ values/ culture) and you somehow expect the youth won't act on what you've been practically programming them to do since the time they were born ? ... In addition, if a teen kid asks you ... why shouldn't I love someone and convince me how the concept of free love is superior to this marital system? ... Most parents would whoop their kids instead of convincing them ... sure they will act all high and mighty with the " it's against our culture argument" after whopping their rear ends ... but that's not exactly a convincing argument ... and most parents can't make a logical argument worth jack for their position .... which is why we're in this predicament to begin with ... The solution is to include something like a "marital studies" course by the time a student reaches puberty. But then again, we won't do that ... Root-cause analysis and taking steps to get rid of that root cause isn't exactly our style ...

root cause analysis of what? why men and women are attracted to each other and want to impress each other by various means? Its not unique to pakistan.. not unique even to our species..

 

[SouI]

Religion of Love!

 

[livingdead]

Religion of Love!

should build a shrine, for st valentine..

 

[RIP Pak LAW]

Its only harming already ruined values of ours. How can I even bare that some random guy just walks to my daughter or sister and hands her over a red flower showing that he loves her (I wish it was just the love and not associated stuff that mainly run in back of mind of a.. ho..)

That's quite an misinformation you have in your head my friend. No random guy does that any where unless you are in some dedicated place like where it is being celebrated like a party, gathering etc so better avoid those place at first, if not interested.

 

[TMA]

They are bound by law to uphold islamic values in Pakistan.

Then why don't they ban the Gregorian New Year celebrations?

We shud not compare Basant with V day. Baant was there and celebrated for decades even during 1965 war over Lahore (U know what I mean ) and it was banned mainly for safety reasons which was a good move indeed. But this V day is a very new BS brought in mainly after so called "Media ki Azadi". Before 2001 I literally did know nothing of what the heck is a V day but now even a small kid knows it all. And if banning V day makes other call me an extremist and ruins my soft image then so be it.

Pakistan should be careful. This move may drive it underground.

 

[SouI]

Then why don't they ban the Gregorian New Year celebrations?


Pakistan should be careful. This move may drive it underground.

Saudi Arabia adopted Gregorian calendar too.

 

[prashantazazel]

I hope not for the non Muslims.
Anyways, the youth will not bow down.