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Dear Readers,
While All Things Pakistan has remained alive and online, it has been dormant since June 11, 2011 - when, on the blog's 5th anniversary, we decided that it was time to move on. We have been heartened by your messages and the fact that a steady traffic has continued to enjoy the archived content on ATP. While the blog itself will remain dormant, we are now beginning to add occasional (but infrequent) new material by the original authors of the blog, mostly to archive what they may now publish elsewhere. We will also be updating older posts to make sure that new readers who stumble onto this site still find it useful.
We hope you will continue to find ATP a useful venue to reflect upon and express your Pakistaniat. - Editors
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@ Animal’s Rights
Daaka Dala hay kisi surkhay nay
huqquq-e-haiwan par aiy Rafay
Surmaiy rung kay halkay say is Gadhay ko
Surkh kar diya In zalimon nay sar-ta-pair
*ahem* these exist too…
arranged marriages are the norm, I’m afraid ;)
@Tina,
thanks for giving me infos on
donkey wears and make-ups.
not to forget donkey’s wedding parlours.
ah, Rafay, no need for sarcasm, I have also seen well-groomed donkeys decorated with patterns in henna…they race them in spare time too and these donkeys get pretty good food….
like a camel or a buffalo, a donkey is too valuable an animal to treat too badly and many of them get good care within the means of the family who owns them.
@Tina,
you should know that Pakistan is an ecologist country
and they love and respect animals, the donkeys visit
the hair-dresser regularly, as they are very handsome
and by nature not very ‘hairy’, they sing very well, they
are even imitated, they participate regularly in Holy
festivals, active in the local politics, very many of them
well dressed, dandy, and eloquent.