BBC: Pakistan battles growing alcohol addiction
Alcoholism is a growing problem in Pakistan despite it being illegal for the Muslim majority to drink. The BBC’s Charles Haviland finds lives ruined and clinics and therapy groups trying to overcome a taboo subject.
Late one night, the beat of dance music drifts down from an upper storey of an apartment block on the edge of a Pakistani city.
Inside the flat, the music is pulsating around a dance floor. There is a bar where a range of liquor is being served and cocktails shaken. Under flashing stroboscopic lights, dozens of people laugh, dance and enjoy the drink.
This is one of the parties that are now commonplace in the cities but are highly discreet.
The liquor is bought illicitly from bootleggers – or from the regular alcohol shops that are supposed to sell only to minorities holding permits but also sell illegally to large numbers of Muslims.
Pakistan even has its own breweries which officially produce only for non-Muslims – or for export.
‘Increasing trend’……
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A clear contradiction making the so called Talibans a fake Muslim group.
Why? Talibans demand is Sharia Law. But every body even non Muslims know that Sharia Law very strictly prohibits making, selling and drinking of alcohol and yet the Talibans ignore not only drinking, selling but also the production of alcoholic drinks in Pakistan. Any reasonable answer? Please don’t tell me that all that is meant for non Muslims. Sharia Law says you should not have anything to do with alcohol.