Adil Najam
Here is a rather gruesome ad from the Punjab Anti-Narcotics Force, warning prospective pilgrims going for Hajj to Saudi Arabia of the dangers of drug trafficking.
The painted bill board ad makes the point, rather graphically and quite clearly that anyone caught bringing drugs into Saudi Arabia will face death. One wonders, however, if that point is being made a little more graphically than necessary.
The wording on the billboard (seemingly quite large and on an outdoor public location) says:
Don’t unknowingly invite death.
By taking someone’s else luggage or unnecessary foreign or local medications do not put your own life at risk.
Taking narcotics or addictive elements to Saudi Arabia will result in a certain death penalty.
Anti-Narcotics Force (Punjab).
How, I wonder, does a parent explain to a child who sees this billboard why the Arab-looking man is beheading the Pakistani-looking man with such gusto.
One wonders who it is that really gives Muslims a ‘bad name’? The message for the prospective drug smuggler to Saudi Arabia is quite clear. But, what is the message for the rest of us? And the rest of the world?
It’s Pakistan Custom’s fault not of KSA. Why would the hear a “story” to declare the person innocent?
It’s our national habbit to blame others for our sins. tsk tsk.
The other day I read that somone took “Khashkhaash” to KSA … which is banned there and hence due to thi no-knowing scene he got imprisoned …. laws are made for disciplining the facilitation or for harassing ..!
ghalib , i understand your point but it is our pakistani bros and sisters getting executed in KSA, and being made examples of… when this law does not apply to westerners and locals ……
this thread really amused me ! we arent doing any thing for our mother land and talking about saudia,usa,china!comparing the country laws and the topic was wat no body even knows!
keep it real bhaiyo do something fer the homeland than sayin america is gud or china is power or saudia is coward think about what our own country is!y it is!and what have we done fer it?and what are we doin!
start building consensus rather than fight!!!
baber, nobody in this world gives a rats ass about Iraq and the Iraqi people. Again a prime example of double standards from the Arab world… or the so called Muslim Ummah…