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'Objectionable' concerts: Opposition walks out of Punjab Assembly session
PPP submits resolution for promotion of cultural activities, objects to concert ban resolution.
PPP submits resolution, objects the Assembly's decision to ban concerts in schools. PHOTO: EXPRESS/FILE
LAHORE: The opposition staged a walked out from the Punjab Assembly on Wednesday after opposition leader, Raja Riaz of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) was denied permission to speak, Express News reported.
The PPP had submitted a resolution for the promotion of cultural activities in the assembly today. The resolution, which was submitted by PPP MPA Sajida Meer, objected to the resolution for a ban on ‘objectionable’ concerts at educational institutions.
The resolution stated that such bans did not ‘suit the 21st century’ and termed the concerts a ‘healthy activity’.
Seemal Kamran, who had moved the ban resolution, said that she opposed Meer’s resolution and said that nobody should promote ‘non-Shariah’ concerts. The MPA said that concerts should take place and the ban was for ‘objectionable’ ones.
Kamran said that those objecting the ban had not read the resolution carefully.
The Punjab Assembly, on Tuesday, had passed a resolution seeking a ban on organising ‘objectionable’ music concerts in private and public academic institutions. This move came weeks after three students were killed in a stampede at a concert in Lahore.
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No one has defined what exactly constitutes as ‘objectionable’ and whose version of ‘Shariah’ are we talking about here exactly? Nothing but a half-witted farce that would give every Tom, Dick and Harry a reason to cause trouble within educational institutes as if we didn’t have enough already.
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Well done PPP, at least on this issue you are thinking right.
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And who would tell the difference between ‘non-Shariah’ and Shariah concerts?
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Way to go PPP legislators, the only party not tainted by extremism.
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There no harm banning objectionable activities especially in educational institutions.any body supporting vulgar functions should think where we are heading.
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Interestingly, the concert in question was NOT held in an educational institution.
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If the recent tragedy of three students dying due to a stampede at a concert is the reason behind the resolution, then the first thing to ban should be ALL religious rallies at all places (public and private) as they have caused the most number of deaths in Pakistan in recent history.
This is the stupidest piece of legislation I have come across since the PTA list of banned words.
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as much as i hate ppp, i do admire it for being the only open national party in the country right now. pnl n is lost cause will alaways go to mullahs for support ( as is a by product of zia what more can be expected) , ik is getting to be unpredicatable with talks of sunni ittehad joining in!! anp at times seems v progeressive and at times not so, but i will rate it above pml n pml q and jis.Recommend
There are lots of deaths during Hajj due to stampede. What is PML-N’s opinion on that? Ban people from going to Hajj?
Punjab government should spend more energies on saving the lives of people as a result of better healthcare than hiding behind silly and dangerous excuses.
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The death of more than 80 people as a direct result of corruption in Punjab Government is not as important to the PML-N MPAs as “objectionable” concerts. Instead of questioning the Punjab Government over who had received kickbacks in this fake medicine scam, they are indulging in non-issues, while trampling on the voice of opposition in the Assembly.
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“NON SHARIAH CONCERTS????”.. can anyone tell me whts a shariah concert! i guess this is a new landmark of “moderate ISLAM”..
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Typical mindset, if you have accident near school put more speed breakers instead of enforcing the law by traffic police. We never find solutions to problems we just replace on problem by another. No wonder people are dying in ambulance cause there are so many speed breakers to go around. we have to and We must i say change this mentality, take small steps and may be in 20 years we can get rid of them all.
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