Adil Najam
Many of our readers might have seen this picture before in one of viral emails that go around. It is an obvious and perfect candidate for our “Photo of the Day” category. The board these two youngsters are posing with reads something like:
Standing here to get your photograph taken is not allowed. By orders of the chair lift administration. Those breaking this rule will handed over to the police and a Rs. 1000 fine will be imposed.
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
Violation of management order by tourists versus violation of 1973 constitution by those who wrote and approved it.
An article in 1973 constitution requires that only those people can become members of pakistan national assembly who have NOT done UNISLAMIC acts e.g. consumption of Alcohol, having sex outside the marriage etc.
1-Late Khalid Hassan, journalist and press secretary of ZAB, in his writeup on former P.M. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto writes ZAB had sexual relations with wife of a very senior government servant… so much so that Ayub Khan threatened him to cut his (ZAB) male sexual organ (P—-) if he does not stop.
2-ZAB is on the record of saying, “yes, i drink alcohol…”
So, if founders of 1973 constitution can violate their own written laws then what to say of Pakistanis, who can not find better way to have “fun”!!!
Perhaps it is funny and innocent but it also shows our deeper tendencies of taking pride in “beating the system.”
In a way it is a cynical reaction to the system that has never been friendly to people. This mindset unfortunately is another hurdle in making any progress….
1. Good to see another Urdu banner on Pakistaniat. Wherever I see Urdu, meraa do chullu khuun baRh jaata hai.
2. It is a sub-continental problem. We don’t believe in abiding by rules.
3. Is it correct Urdu? Tasviir banaana? Tasviir to khiinchii jaatii hai from the days of Meer Taqi Meer. Tasviir khiinchna is correct. Tasviir banaana means ‘to paint’ or ‘musavvari’.
Leave them alone, they’re just having a bit of harmless fun.
Reading some of the comments above, I have to comment on the term “typical” Pakistani, which gets used so often.
This is a country of 170 Million people ! How many have we met who habitually break rules ? How many people do we meet who follow the rules ? On a red light, how many people stop ? how many try to break it ?
I’m sorry but it always amuses + irritates me to see our own people giving sweeping statements making every Pakistani sound like a low life-form.
It’s bad enough to live with Pakistan’s current image among people on the outside, but let’s at least show some self-respect.
I meet a lot of decent, hard working, law abiding, fun loving Pakistanis every day. I think I’m a typical Pakistani and I don’t go around breaking rules all day – prove me wrong !!
Its just some innocent fun, and its not just Pakistanis that do these kinds of things. If you compare this to some of the other horrendous acts which people do, its nothing.