Adil Najam
This very entertaining photograph is of a warning sign posted in the basement of the Summit Minar in Lahore.
Shararti logouN kay leeaye saza ka maaqool intizaam hai.
(Appropriate punishment arrangements are available for the mischevous.)
I wonder what the “saza ka maqool intizaam” actually entails.
A part of me wishes we could institute a similar sign and system for all our ATP friends who regularly and repeatedly ignore this blogs’ comment policies. Maybe we will!
I must confess, their childish antics do sometimes get to me. The blatant disregard for stated policies and the obvious disrespect for others bugs me. But what really bothers me is how much time and energy it saps from those of us who run this site and from the readership. Cleaning up the mess after these displays of shooda baazi, leaves us exhausted. But then, as one reader recently wrote to me, “the urge to act smart and ‘beat the system’ may itself be a component of Pakistaniat.”
Note: I found the photograph at Flickr via MicroPakistan; photo and translation credit to mafimushkala.
hahahaa …. nice… This has the potential to become a standard comment box icon for Pakistani blogs …
I believe that urge to beat the system and outsmart the rules has become a part of asian cultures, specially in this part of the world where we dwell. I built a website for auctions in pakistan, and very very frequenctly I see people posting bids in crores :) I dont understand why people abuse a free service like that, but thats how we love to play around with people’s hardwork !
This is infact moto of our Government.President should have one such inscription outside his infamous camp office.Had CJ Iftikhar Chaudhray read that,he would not have dared to commit anything which Intazamia refers to as Shararat
kuch had tak yeh kaha ja sakta hay kay sharartee log duniya
ki ronaq main izaaqfa kartay hain or mood change karnay main
important role play kartay hain,laikin agar shararat badtamizi
ki shaqal ikhtiyaar kar lay or dosron kay liay tension ka
wasila ban jai to ISLAM kay point of view kay mutaqbiq usay utnee saza zaroor dainee chahiyay jitna us nay qasoor kia ho.Is kay liay koi particular punishment tajveez nahin ki ja saktee.
I think its a bluff.
aik tho shararat kee koee ‘maaqool’ saza ho hee naheen sakti. na-mumkin hai. mazeed shararat ke alawa.
doosray itnay logon kay leeye, jo shararti bhi hain, koee kaar-gar saza mumkin hee naheen hai. bay-kaar hai.
lehaza, ye board bhi asl mein aik shararat hai !
shayad iss baat pay kuchh logon ko ikhtilaaf ho – khaas kuchh mulla-maail hazraat wa khawatean ko. khai un ka tho kuchh naheen kiya ja sake ga, lekin ! apnee tashaffee kay leeye hamaree tajweez darj e zail hai.
hamein yaqeen hai shararat par. iss liye hamein iss hypo.thesis ko empirically test karna chahiye, aur nojawanaun, bachon aur boorhon se iltimaas karana chahiye ke wo uss maqaam par ja kar aik aisee bharpoor shararat karein jo thori see imperfection kee waja se aasanee se pakree jaaye. aur nateejay ATP ko irsaal karein. taa-kay iss shararat-bharay masalay ka sadd e baab kiya jaye.
was-salaam wa durood.
dua-go