Owais Mughal
This notice board is from Food Street, Lahore. It reads:
“Entering the ‘Food Street’ wearing shorts is strictly prohibited: Food Street Administration”
Among other things on this notice board, I enjoyed reading the word sakht (strictly). As if the word forbidden didn’t sound serious enough, the administration had to add a prefix strictly forbidden to make sure people undrestand that administration means business here.
Credits: I found the above photo in rooq’s collection at Flickr.com.
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I once drove a cousin recently arrived from USA to Muree, only to find out he couldnt go out of the car since he was wearing shorts. we both had a good laugh!
“I believe we should give some respect to the feelings of Lahoris, it is not about being extreme interpretation of islam it is just like,….”
From this statement it appears that it is some kind of Lahori custom which forbids men to wear shorts and particularly when there are women folks. Are the Lahori women forbidden to watch a kabaDDy game or a kushty between two naked pahalwAns?
If, not showing their legs, is a kind of Lahori Leg HijAb, then the same restricions should be also imposed on women. and they should not be admitted in the merry-making crowd without a proper HijAb (of course Lahori) . The women clad in burqA should be welcomed with open arms because their Hijab is complete! Of course the administration of the Food Street should find some appropriate welcoming arms!!
But can the others persons watch how these hidden objects eat with their burqA down?
A bearded person hides a part of his face. So, a normal face becomes respectable and docile. Should it not be also classified as a HijAb for men?
So, the next step of the Food Street Administeration should be to allow the burqA and some other types of HijAb as they deem appropriate and also only the beards to enter the sacred Lahori Food Street.
Dear Maja (I am using only your last name to aoid any bad feelings among some guardians of the morality (Lahori). I hope you will excuse me), your remark is entirely opposite to the way the prohibition will follow.
“Ok, accepted BUT only on one condition: NO BURKAS & NO BEARDS either.”
Actually those trying to relate it with religion are poor “desi gorazs” who are dying for getting more and more weternized every day. Dactar sab, they probably have never happened to go to a five star hotel, gymkhanas or services club etc. Ye manjhi wale hotel pe dal khane wale hen jo wahan khane ke sath cable pe nanhi mungi thumkian dekh kar hi khush ho jate hen. In becharon ko Dress ka kia pata aor code ki kia khabar
Let them wear what they like. Who the hell are we to dictate our likes and dislikes in public places.
Wearing flying dhotis with no underpants is ok
Wearing shalwar kameez with genitals swinging is ok
OH YES — But Agar Ap Nay Nikar Pehnee To Ap Dairay e Islam say bahar a saktay hain
What UTTER RUBBISH
not even under the pants?
Shorts just show the parts of legs from kneew to feet. Where say people who roam around with Rupa kay banyaan exposing their manly tits, thats indecent. All these butchers and roti wallah, doodhwala roam in gali mohallahs with that rupa baniyaan on, shouldn’t there be a sign in our gali mohalahs which would say shorts okay but shirt compulsory.
mazhar why people of clifton or defence have no problem with shorts?
When you say “Wearing shorts at public places is greatly indecent, obnoxious and shameful, especially when women are around.”
I think it all depends how short your shorts are? you sound like you are talking about thongs.
Its hairy people who need shorts the most when it gets really HOT and imagine no electricity.
those who are proponents of wearing shorts I challenge them to traverse the streets of Karachi (except Defence/Clifton) wearing shorts and see the result. Wearing shorts at public places is greatly indecent, obnoxious and shameful, especially when women are around. If some ”chief hairy King’ wants to show his bristles or manhood he better show it in the boxing ring or the arena. No body cares for his ‘manhood” ,,,,only it’s indecent ,obscene and disgusting when women folk or children are around. I had been wearing shorts in my teens but only at the sports ground or in the boxing ring as these are the right places to exhibit your ‘fibre’
I hope those wearing shorts in public would review their outlook towards it and take to reasonable decency in their attire in relation to their environment.. Unfortunately, the fad of wearing shorts is restricted to some areas which are less populatedI as compared to downtown) or where a bit of less ‘’socially sensitive or caring” people dwell.