Is alcohol available for pakistani military personnel?

[Reddy]

Is alcohol available for pakistani military personnel ? I think it was available until 1960-70's . Is it still available for military personnel ?

 

[Patriot]

No, it was banned during ZAB's time.

 

[Spring Onion]

Is alcohol available for pakistani military personnel ? I think it was available until 1960-70's . Is it still available for military personnel ?

You want to supply from your quota ??

It is banned for them.

 

[muse]

A ban honored by it's breach.

 

[third eye]

A ban honored by it's breach.

I think this reply answers the Q.

 

[Righteous_Fire]

A ban honored by it's breach.

reminds me of a few famous one liners, (I aint sayin anything)

A breach sparse and hidden apart OR

Only the special few may get the fruit of the Gods

 

[Spring Onion]

A ban honored by it's breach.::

Better than burdening the national kitty for the commodity

Lolz look at the number of people browsing this thread. no doubt vultures hoping to find an opportunity

 

[muse]

There is only a national Kitty because of the Services - no services, no kitty, and that's why no amount of money is any kind of measure for the sacrifice that is service. Laws for human beings, not human beings for laws.

 

[afriend]

Banning alchol is good..!! You know.. alcholism is serious issue among the armed forces in india. But don't you guys get alcohol at all in pakistan.. is it banned completely????

 

[third eye]

Well, .. has baning ever helped ... in anything ? Also does baning stop anything or simply put it underground ( & raise it price too !).

 

[Xeric]

It was banned during Gen Zia era.

As for the those who mock everything, try to get a life!

 

[Spring Onion]

. But don't you guys get alcohol at all in pakistan.. is it banned completely????

yeh it is banned all over Pakistan its just that you can get alchohol easily even in a conservative city like Peshawar

So no one gets sleepless even if its banned.

 

[muse]

has baning ever helped ... in anything ? Also does baning stop anything or simply put it underground ( & raise it price too !).

Yes, that seems on the money to me; it does not help rather it does as you have suggested, it criminalizes a otherwise personal choice and makes it more expensive.

For me it is the idea of criminalizing a personal choice that is really problematic - it is part of the same thinking that seeks to make automatons of Majority Muslims, for instance you may not realize it but, increasing numbers of persons began identifying themselves as Shi'ah muslims so as to no allow the govt to deduct "Muslim taxes" (zakat) from their accounts, similarly gettinga divorce is easier if you should denounce and give up Islam and declare yourself a Christian -- the law of unintended consequences? Or is it exactly what they had in mind?? Social engineering anyone? make mine a double.

 

[pmukherjee]

Banning alchol is good..!! You know.. alcholism is serious issue among the armed forces in india.

Yeah, says who?
If any thing, it is an issue though not a very serious one in the whole society. The Indian experience has been that banning never helps. Wherever prohibition has existed, it has failed. The rich have still managed to get their qouta while the poor have died in hordes of drinking spurious liquour and the smugglers have got richer. The only way to combat alcoholism is education and not a ban.

 

[Elmo]

It was banned during Gen Zia era.


It was actually banned during Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's time... at the same time he had banned gambling and horse racing, and also declared Friday as a weekly holiday.