The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has directed mobile phone companies to immediately discontinue the late night packages. The reason given is that such packages run counter to the social norms and values of the country and that they had received a number of complaints regarding the promotion of vulgarity through their advertisements.
Your views on this?
Zack’s full rant after the jump.
And of course Pakistan is “misunderstood”. No it’s not; this is a freaking theocracy in the making and whatever India may or may not have done, it’s simply in a different league to Pakistan.
As Omar has said despite similarity in the IndoPak socio-cultural situation (having once been the same territory etc.) the difference is that India aspires to liberal values while Pakistanis jealously look on to Saudi & Iran as their mode exemplars.
Muzzer Pakis shape up please!!!!! You give the rest of us a bad name and Kaffirs like me will leave the sinking ship while the rest of you are throbbingly reciting before Indo-Israeli jets rain down on you lot (only people with a death-wish incur the unnecessary wrath of greater powers; Muzzers wake up please and join the world and I say this as an Islamophile-lite).
I’m tired of this narrative-fixed when innocent things like Pakistani teenage horniness is being regulated; thank the good Lord I is a Brit and instead we fret about women bishops in the CoE.
Stupid Pakis- anyway I can’t say these things cuz I’m one of them (for now; how do you Saffronise/Sanskritise Latif lol).
I know a lot of indian Latif’s. Far as I’m concerned its a Saffron as Ram Singh Bahadur. Or anyone called Sameer.
Late Latif..
+1
This is really stupid. Why even take it seriously?
Though “sexting” is against Islam. Good Pakistani boys and girls should not even look at na-mehrams until their parents arrange their marriages to suitable boys and girls! (yeah right)
Why not?
The fact is that if the “little things” are not condemned soon enough they will snowball into the “big things.”
Pakistanis want to be both pious, traditional and modern; sometimes something has to give.
This is a derivative of deep and widely held Nanny Govt belief by most Pakistanis. Everyone looks upto the govt for various things, inlcuding but not limited to : Straightening out the errant wives, sisters and daughters, making sure everyone prays (or atleast is given a free time) 5 times a day, etc etc. If u go to a govt office (or private businesses, to some extent), every one is haram-khoring.
On a side note: I remember in late 90s, i was helping a gora client in Karachi, on Friday. As usual, everyone left the office for Jumma for 2+ hours (1 hour namaz, 1 hour lunch). He asked me why I had not left. I replied, “well, I am out of this crap”. 10 years later, i heard this gora is now a Muslim
I hope he is still working as diligently as he used to, specially on Fridays.
Sometimes it can get rather mindless..
Try Lathish, a popular Mallu name. You could turn it into a pun by spelling it Latish.