It very well explains why we have not progressed enough as a nation
LAHORE: Often confused as part of cultural celebrations, Basant is merely a life-threatening festival. Over the years, it has only resulted in loss of human lives. A girl in Lahore was killed while two others sufffered serious injuries as they touched a glass-coated string of a stray kite in Gulbahar Colony in December 2018.
Where there are so many poor people in our country who are dying due to starvation and other sustainability issues along with thousands of those who are not able to send their children to school because they cannot afford to, we as a nation happily spend on such festivities. It well explains why we have not progressed enough as a nation.
If it is all about promoting culture and its celebration, the government must ensure that glass-coated strings are banned and not produced across the country, as otherwise the responsibility for the loss of lives would directly fall on the government to which it would be then answerable to.
Dua Qasim
Published in The Express Tribune, January 20th, 2019.
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