[quote]ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani judge on Monday banned all Valentine's Day celebrations in the country's capital, Islamabad, saying they are against Islamic teachings.
The ban applies only to Pakistan's capital as the Islamabad high court has no jurisdiction beyond the city.
The regulator in a statement directed all Pakistani media outlets not to print or broadcast anything that promotes Valentine's Day. No event shall be held at any official level and at any public place, the statement quoted a part of the court order.
Islamist and right-wing parties in Pakistan view Valentine's Day as vulgar Western import.
However, the annual homage to romance on Feb. 14 has become popular in recent years across the Middle East and also in Pakistan.
Though some Muslim countries such as Saudi Arabia also have sought to stamp out Valentine's Day, with the religious police mobilizing ahead of Feb. 14 and descending on gift and flower shops to confiscate all red items, including flowers, it is still celebrated widely in other places such as Dubai.[/quote]
[url]https://www.apnews.com/6bcd09b9726646a3a38d1db427c64aa2/Pakistan-court-bans-Valentine's-Day-in-capital[/url]
You can't get rejected on Valentine's Day if there is no Valentine's Day
*insert African American male with index finger on temple meme here*
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Someone got rejected
The chocolate lobby in Pakistan needs to up their game.
springfield can import their Love day merch
[QUOTE]with the religious police mobilizing ahead of Feb. 14 and descending on gift and flower shops to confiscate all red items, including flowers[/QUOTE]
This is hilarious
Of course, this happens every year.
This doesn't stop citizens from celebrating it, though.
Carpet-bomb every country involved with conversation hearts.
I'm glad they're finally tackling the real problems in there country
Clearly, love goes against God's teachings.
[QUOTE=imperialrock;51819074]Clearly, love goes against God's teachings.[/QUOTE]
Of course it is. Love can only be made face to face, in bed, between man and wife, in the missionary position. Anything else his heresy.
Wait, wrong religion...
[QUOTE=Omilinon;51818054]Of course, this happens every year.
This doesn't stop citizens from celebrating it, though.[/QUOTE]
If it's anything like how the situation is like over in neighboring India, there's gonna be gangs of roving involuntarily celibate repressed goombas roaming around public parks, harassing young couples and thrashing them, in the name of culture.
We get this shit every year here in Mumbai and most metropolitan cities; wouldn't be surprised if it's different in Pakistan.
This, incidentally, also happens to be a very good reason why religion should have no place in government.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;51818287]More tragic than hilarious[/QUOTE]
Apparently those guys are braindead retards. My friend said his cousin got stopped by one in Jordan(could have been Palestine) and when he gave him his ID, the guy just stared at it upside down pretending to read it then let him go
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;51818287]More tragic than hilarious[/QUOTE]
What a shithole
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;51820404]The fact they hold the power of the law is even more concerning[/QUOTE]
Pakistani here, it is, but it's not gonna stop anyone like the hookah ban. The police in the major cities is a joke.
afaik they have some influence on government but most of the younger population thinks they're full of shit and the government is so ineffective at enforcing any non-military related law that most of their actions are subverted really fast.
[editline]14th February 2017[/editline]
[QUOTE=snookypookums;51819150]If it's anything like how the situation is like over in neighboring India, there's gonna be gangs of roving involuntarily celibate repressed goombas roaming around public parks, harassing young couples and thrashing them, in the name of culture.
We get this shit every year here in Mumbai and most metropolitan cities; wouldn't be surprised if it's different in Pakistan.
This, incidentally, also happens to be a very good reason why religion should have no place in government.[/QUOTE]
Yeah that's pretty much the case in the more isolated towns, in the major cities you can't really stop people from doing what they want.
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