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.
Gentlemen….as the ATP mgmt says “Bol, magar piyar say”! You guys seem to be arguing just for the heck of it. You cannot stop people from wearing shorts/dhotis/baniyaans and also cannot stop them from staring at you or even chastising you when you wear one. It just so happens that in Pakistan people are not used to seeing grown men wearing shorts in public, and is considered indecent, whereas they can wear a dhoti and a baniyaan and no one would point any fingers. You guys are arguing about shorts, just go to an extremly rural area in any province wearing a pair of jeans and watch how you are treated.
Folks….food street is all about amazing food….where did the bloody shorts come into the equation?
Time to change the topic of the discussion I guess……how about folks should not be allowed to step out of the house wearing a shalwar/pajamas without a top and UGs :)
This beats wearing shorts hands-down (no hidden statement here)
mazhar
defence and clifton people are kala angraz and the dooti wallahs are jahil not educated so that leaves middle class i guess from which you belong, Are they the only gentlemans left. By the way who say wearing shorts means you are not a gentleman? All these morals are being imposed on us by middleclass. Now they are going to tell us what to wear and what not to.
You can dress properly even if you were shorts . All these morals are made by men like me and you. I respect your opnion but correct your logic. And yeh shorts does not mean you have to wear underwear or thongs.
Problem with most pakistani people, even educated people, is that they consider shalwar kameez a holy dress. I have not come across to any aayat in quran which says wearing shalwar kameez is the only way to get into jannat. This is totally silly and rubbish. This is not freedom in any way. why don’t they fine people for cussing. Government will make lot of money by doing so.
if you want to preserve your culture than nobody is stopping you from doing that but you don’t have the right to force people to follow you just because your ancestor never saw anybody in shorts or pants.
Baber,,,,,,,
I say Defence and Clifton because you can find some ”Kala angraiz” only in these places. These people are not what they actually pose to be.
Wearing Shorts at public places is ungentlemanly.
If one has to follow ‘flying dhoti wallas” and ‘rupa banyan wallas” then what’s the difference between a Jahil and an educated person?
If someone feels too hot in summers it doesnt mean that he can strip off and walk in public in nickers or without uppers.
Decency commands you to dress up properly in all events, even at your own houses.
As for burqa walis I dont mind anyone wearing it ,,,,,,,that’s yet another way of ‘exhibitionism” nowadays !