Some Pakistani television channels seem to find this picture ‘cute’ and a great ‘human interest story.’ I happen to think it is disgusting! What do you think?
Please, please, please tell me you also find this more than just objectionable and restore by faith in Pakistani sanity!
The guy in the picture is 23-year old Azhar Haidri of Multan. On his right is Humaira Qasim (his 28-year old cousin that he has long been engaged to marry) and on his left is Rumana Aslam (his 21-year old other cousin who he says is his ‘true love’). He married both of them within 24-hours on October 19 and 20 in what was supposed to be his ‘dillema’ of who he should marry!
The whole thing has been a TV spectacle this last week. But what is really a spectacle to me is TV news anchors and hosts smiling and smirking as they “report” on this story – complete with “news footage” of the two weddings and interviews with the groom – as if this was one big joke!
As far as I am concerned, ruining two lives in this way is no joke. It is disgusting. And the smirks on these news anchors’ faces makes it even more disgusting.
And just when you thought it could not be any more disgusting than it is, there was the groom on my screen today being interviewed and saying that since he is the only brother of 9 sisters, he would appeal to people to please support him financially so that he can marry off his sisters now!
Yes, that is what he said. You know what else he said, he also said that since he comes from a place near the Prime Minister’s city he hopes that the Prime Minister will provide him with resources and support for his “honeymoon.”
And all of this is a “cute” “human interest story” to our news media!
I understand that every society has its share of freaks and publicity hungry psychopaths. But the real freaks here are the TV news anchors who are not only encouraging this psychopath but actually condoning and tactically supporting his behavior.
@Hina: I usually ignore drawing women rights champions like you who act like Jamatis while making “Bharakain”. I say again, Instead of doing typical girlish rants, come forward and help those ladies to get married who are getting aged due to cruel society norms.
How many more cousins does he have?
Perhaps ATP needs to watch out for what they are printing. When the country is begging the world for help after the floods, and the economy is in a rut, we need to be careful about showing this gaudy display of two woman laden with gold to the world. This shows the insensitivity and the utter disregard by some to the plight of their fellow country men and women. Hillary Clinton is right when she fumes over the rich Pakistanis not doing their fair share to help the flood ravaged.
What is more disgusting is the kind of press and space it is getting.
Yes it is a cold reality to push the ladies to the limit of insecurities and make them obey the silly traditions like frivolous dowry and valimas that they have no other choice but this.
The sad part is that this will pass on to their children and they may born with the chronic dipression, hope not.
The funny part is though on the other hand that no matter how insecure or generously sharing heart these ladies are, they still are humans and in couple of months this dude will be asking the government to pay for his hair transplant if you know what I mean.
uff yeh bewian!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT0-WFsP0sM&feature =related
To be frank, I feel envious as many perhaps do who have not a single one to take in their arms. It shows how much tolerance and compromise our people can demonstrate even in this age of extremism and intolerance.
In fact, ‘Nikah’, in my view, does not mean just a license for sexual relationship, but it is a social contract in a muslim society, which allows na-mehrams to live together by ‘mehramfying’ them.
In the west they can do this without any formal contract and no body cares, but here it has become a news for the news hungry media.