Dawn: Hajra Mumtaz: THERE are many in Pakistan who argue that the problem with the country is not its uneducated millions, but its educated: those who ought to know better (and too often, to the detriment of the rest of the country, operate under the belief that they do).
Let us take the legal community as a representative case. In Lahore, controversy has been stirred by a supposed ban on the sale of Shezan juices at the canteen of the district and sessions court.
A group of lawyers who call themselves the Khatm-i-Nabuwwat Lawyers’ Forum moved a Lahore Bar Association resolution to curtail the sale of the brand on the grounds that the company was owned by members of the Ahmadi community. And while bar officials say that in order to hold, the resolution has to be approved by the general council of the LBA, the prohibitive atmosphere is such that the brand has already vanished from the lower courts’ canteen.
However the issue is eventually resolved, much of the damage has already been done. The point of concern here is that such a discriminatory resolution was proposed at all.
For the purposes of this argument, it is immaterial who the owners of the company actually are. That is under dispute too, and while one could argue that the KNLF proposal is all the more shocking for having been based on speculation, that still does not detract from the inappropriateness of the move in the first place.
Categories: Asia, Entertainment, Human Rights, Law and Religion, Pakistan
It does remind one of Hitler’s Germany. Did he not ask to boycott Jewish owned shops?
Reminds one of the boycott inflicted by the kuffaar-e-makkah
Very right. It only the practice of of disbelievers. Never did any Prophet or his followers do that. People can be known of their kind, by their actions.
This is a proof of the truth of our beloved prophet Muhammad SAW, who had prophesied that Muslims will become Yahudis like the two fingers or like the two shoes match each other.These Khatme Nabuwat terrorists have proved our prophet truthful.
I endorse the above statement of Mr. Iftikhar Sheikh
Shezan owners should not worry Allah will give them better market places in other countries. as they are already doing good here in toronto, canada, even at big indian grocery stores.
I will buy their products from now.