Punjab Assembly passes resolution to ban
LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly has passed a resolution seeking a ban on organising objectionable music concerts in private and public academic institutions.
The move comes weeks after three students were killed in a stampede at a concert in Lahore.
The resolution is among eight presented on Tuesday, which has been specified as a private members day. Five resolutions were passed, two are pending while one was disposed off.
Seemal Kamran, an MPA from the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid, moved the resolution against concerts. Deputy Speaker Rana Mashhood asked Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan if the treasury members opposed the resolution.
Sanaullah replied in the affirmative, after which Kamran was asked to argue the merits of her resolution.
Pakistan is an Islamic republic and permitting music concerts to take place in public and private educational institutions is against the morality and ethics of Islamic culture, Kamran said. When I was in college, our teachers questioned us over [inane things like] long and coloured nails. These days, institutions have done away with this kind of discipline in the name of moderation,
She asked the house which rules allowed such concerts to be organised. Academic institutions are using these concerts as opportunities to publicise their branches.
Citing the unfortunate deaths earlier this month, she demanded that the resolution be passed for the sake of a secure future for our children.
After hearing her arguments, Sanaullah said that the government cannot impose a blanket ban on concerts as many of them include national songs etc. Therefore, he suggested, the word objectionable be added to the resolution and lent his support if that amendment was made.
The resolution was then unanimously passed after Kamran agreed to Sanaullahs suggestion.
During the debate on the resolution, the law minister claimed that the media had downplayed the incident where three girls died in a concert organised by a private college, which is owned by the same group that runs a popular nationwide news channel. If the same incident had occurred in a concert organised by a government college, media would have been severe in its criticism. The media has set a precedent that if someone wants to smoothly run a business, they can conceal misconduct by also running a channel or newspaper on the side.
Meanwhile, speaking to reporters outside the Punjab Assembly, Pakistan Peoples Partys Deputy Parliamentary Leader Shaukat Mehmood Basra said that the resolution should not have been passed as no one had defined the word objectionable or what is in the national interest.
Somebody ask this so called pious lady of the corruption she and her party have been involved in?
Or perhaps how all those pious members that voted for the resolution would also forgo their visits t courtesans?
LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly has passed a resolution seeking a ban on organising objectionable music concerts in private and public academic institutions.
The move comes weeks after three students were killed in a stampede at a concert in Lahore.
The resolution is among eight presented on Tuesday, which has been specified as a private members day. Five resolutions were passed, two are pending while one was disposed off.
Seemal Kamran, an MPA from the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid, moved the resolution against concerts. Deputy Speaker Rana Mashhood asked Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan if the treasury members opposed the resolution.
Sanaullah replied in the affirmative, after which Kamran was asked to argue the merits of her resolution.
Pakistan is an Islamic republic and permitting music concerts to take place in public and private educational institutions is against the morality and ethics of Islamic culture, Kamran said. When I was in college, our teachers questioned us over [inane things like] long and coloured nails. These days, institutions have done away with this kind of discipline in the name of moderation,
She asked the house which rules allowed such concerts to be organised. Academic institutions are using these concerts as opportunities to publicise their branches.
Citing the unfortunate deaths earlier this month, she demanded that the resolution be passed for the sake of a secure future for our children.
After hearing her arguments, Sanaullah said that the government cannot impose a blanket ban on concerts as many of them include national songs etc. Therefore, he suggested, the word objectionable be added to the resolution and lent his support if that amendment was made.
The resolution was then unanimously passed after Kamran agreed to Sanaullahs suggestion.
During the debate on the resolution, the law minister claimed that the media had downplayed the incident where three girls died in a concert organised by a private college, which is owned by the same group that runs a popular nationwide news channel. If the same incident had occurred in a concert organised by a government college, media would have been severe in its criticism. The media has set a precedent that if someone wants to smoothly run a business, they can conceal misconduct by also running a channel or newspaper on the side.
Meanwhile, speaking to reporters outside the Punjab Assembly, Pakistan Peoples Partys Deputy Parliamentary Leader Shaukat Mehmood Basra said that the resolution should not have been passed as no one had defined the word objectionable or what is in the national interest.
Somebody ask this so called pious lady of the corruption she and her party have been involved in?
Or perhaps how all those pious members that voted for the resolution would also forgo their visits t courtesans?
Only agree with you on the american consulate part 
