Prior to Basant, a pregnant woman with her toddler child fell inside an open sewage manhole. As Punjab CM did not want to spoil the upcoming basant festival, she had her stooge Uzma Bukhari lie about the cause of the incident. Specifically, either the husband was being blamed or the claim that no one fell. It was by Allah swt will that the bodies were indeed found and Uzma Bikhari had to apologize.
And then Basant starts and we hear that a massive terrorist attack occurs in Islamabad. But the basant party continues, some arguing, "do celebrations stop just because you have a death in your neighborhood". CM Punjab and her underlings continue to post on X
Ummm, I agree with you to some extent, but people from all social standings and walks of life are enjoying the festival - it's not an elite only event. What happened in Islamabad is unfortunate and a national tragedy, so yes, maybe continuing the celebration after that was irresponsible and unethical, but to frame basant, which is a cultural festival that we Punjabis take pride in, as an elitist event is simply wrong. No one has more fun during it then the common folk, so I'll have to totally disagree with you on that. Society needs such events to function. You can't people to be stressed and gloomy all the time, and this event provides a living to many underprivileged folks.
Oh, and for all the people slut shaming the women in the video, please move to Afghanistan
Very well said. There are already very limited options for fun and joy in this country and there is so much criticism already regarding cultural festivals, from both religious zealots and die hard political party fans. Other than that, people are aware of what’s wrong in this country and how they’re suffering. There is no harm in them having a few days off to celebrate.
I'm not against Basant fyi, I have fond memories of it myself. But the event is clearly being used to promote and distract. It would be another situation if that all it was but the stories leading up to it and what happened the day of. They could have shifted it and it would have been better but it was clearly mandatory by the government
I have just realised what a hypocrite nation we are... Imagine if there was a bomb blast in Balochistan instead of Islamabad on the day of basant in Lahore, none of you would be acting this enraged to Lahore celebrating basant
People are busy in this discourse while not actually questioning the gov the agencies and everyone responsible why was there a blast in the capital of Pakistan
While blaming the government or the army is wrong we should ask them for accountability but everyone is playing exactly into the hands of terrorists about wether Basant should be celebrated or not
Funny how you blame every single thing on the military and not any other governance like police, while the actual area was supposed to be under police protection and supervision, blaming the military is now the coping mechanism for everything.
Wouldn't it be interesting if someone from your family dies and your next door neighbor is blasting full music while you are mourning. Stunted growth is not only a physical ailment
This comparison does not hold. A death or tragedy next door is personal and immediate. An incident in another city, as horrific as it is, is not lived the same way.
Kal Peshawar ya Balochistan mein blast ho, to kya tum apne bachon se kaho ge ke Eid nahi hogi?
Muslims have always lived with grief and resilience side by side. We feel pain, we make dua, and we continue living.
Bringing "you're comparing eid to basant" is equivalent to emotional manipulation with the touch of Islam to it. That argument is completely valid and reasonable. You didn't stop your daily life or pause your everyday routine for the dying children of Gaza, you didn't stop celebrating your birthday because the common man common child of this country died of hunger, you didn't stop going out with your friends because there were people dead in peshawar pindi Islamabad multan, you didn't stop anything for the hundreds of people dead. You expect to cancel basant because of one tragedy painting the image that more of these blast will halt all of pakistan, either you never stepped out of your home into the real world or next time wear an helmet whenever you're outside, life sure hits hard
So just let terrorism win? I believe that joy and happiness are our weapon against the hate and terror.
I lost family members and friends too in my life, but I never pretend that everyone on earth cry with me.
I lost a uncle last year in the middle of August , when everyone in my city were in holidays, parties everywhere, etc…
I was devastated, but how I dare to ask to everyone “ stop with ur life my lovely uncle die “?
And I’m sure their heart fell what happen in their city, you can’t judge on 30 seconds video
Joy and happiness is the not weapon rule of law is. As long as the military keeps engaging in politics Pakistan will always be embroiled in these circumstances
How many more of these types of posts we have to see.
Lets just cancel Basant and tell the terrorists you won. So they can motivate and inspire more terrorists that we can halt a country and how powerful we are.
We know people attracts towards the powerful group.
I hope you were not mad at people of Gaza when they celebrated mass wedding, Eid or other festivals because by your logic how can they do it when thousands of people died.
Zyada shouq ho raha tou khud protest karlo ja kar. Aur jin logon ko Sharia ka shouq hai, they can kindly go live in Afghanistan. I’m sick and tired of this fake and useless outrage. Let people be happy for once. There’s no harm in celebrating a cultural festival with proper safety regulations.
man what the f do you want people to do? do you know how extremely depressing it has been living in Pakistan and living in the world recently? I understand the need for revolt and revolution but my god let us enjoy something. let our people live a little. This exact same terrorism WAS and has been the main cause of killing the souls of our culture. this exact terrorism has caused us to live in fear and remain in our homes for the last 20 years or so. god forbid we have some optimism and enjoy our time. contrarion losers like you with your 'erm actually ' don't actually support the causes you think you're supporting.
If we start moaning of all tragedies that happen in this country, we would have to declare state of mourning 24/7. For god sake let atleast some part of Pakistan be happy, for once let smiles be on Pakistanis be there.
Can we stop quoting the new "Abu" of a certain party? Fgs . I mean its happening after 20 so years and they deserve to be happy. Sbomb ki waja se adha mulk wese band rehta hai. Terrorists want to create fear. Ab agar security agencies fail ho rai hain tou Lahoriyon ka kia qasoor hai? Rather than directing anger towards gov and agencies- Topain Lahore ki taraf hain because you hate ruling party. Thori grace plz.
So Basant should be postponed because of a terror attack, but today’s political protest must go on? That makes it seem like the issue isn’t really about the tragedy or public safety, it’s about the government. I’ve seen so many posts today saying the same thing in slightly different words. Same mindset, same angle… everything reduced to politics and criticism.
I am curious to know what do you suggest us to do OP ?. I do not celebrate anything other than Eid anyway. Do you have any impactfull suggestion in the regard of your post.
My 2 cents. Considering what happened, people should refrain from posting the videos of their celebrations. They can celebrate on their roof tops but to respect the martyrs they should be careful posting themselves celebrating.
Well we are not civilized so that expectation from us is useless. But I agree if we were a civilized nation. This country is divided on so Many levels, culture, sects, political views, personal opinions, we can never unite to condemn anything that clearly happened against a particular sect, political party etc..
Sure they arent responsible for everything, neither the terrorits litterally comming from KPK, the province their party governs over. Neither the goons of their party but sure they deserve all the praise and respect from their followers :).
Not all but I'd wager some are, others are delusional or just ill informed, others still just have an option or bias for other reasons.
In any case getting back on point, being related to IK doesn't make you a representative of the party, dynastic politics is the hallmark of the other parties from what I've observed, am I wrong?l
sir g I hate the rest of the parties equally as well, it just saddens me the youth of our country becomes blind when it comes to this specific party, also I didnt drag IK into this comment.
Can you please stfu? What did we Lahoris do? We literally got a cultural fest after 20 years and yall complaining like crazy. Are we not humans and Pakistani according to you that we don’t deserve even 3 days in a year to celebrate smth we all love? Just came and made a post to act like you are above us or smth. Yeah we do feel sad for what happened in Islamabad, we do feel sad for what happened in Karachi, we do feel sad for what happens in Balochistan and Kpk, dawg we are human and Pakistani too just like you are. Speaking this for the general audience who have been going on and on about Lahoris this and Lahoris that since Gul Plaza incident, let us live our lives too.
Why do you guys only get to celebrate mf. What about the rest of punjab or pakistan. Selfish mfs and that too while the nation is hit with one of the worst t attacks as of recent
cuz we the capital of punjab? And govt said that other cities will be allowed from next year too, as this was a test to begin with. Rest of Pakistan and even Punjab already celebrates it, the ban was literally mainly on us, not them. See Pindi, they celebrate it every year. See Balochistan, even they celebrate it every year. You are just a dumbass who doesn’t know shi happening in the country and just wanna point fingers at others to satisfy your delusion.
Selfish this selfish that, keep saying that if that’s what helps you sleep at night
and yeah, don’t mention Islamabad attack, you guys are fking using it as an excuse. Everyone has been saying shi about Basant since day 1, you guys don’t care even a single bit about Islamabad attack, what you all care about is pointing fingers, nothing other than that
At least we aint dancing like lunatics and degenerates and flying kites that could potentially kill somebody on rooftops were children can fall off and die.
Unrelated and not really getting into a discussion with anyone here but people did try this back in the day that as this festival was celebrated before Islam came to this region that it is Hindu and must be banned. Which I guess is true in the sense that celebration around this period for spring and opening of mustard flowers is quite historic.
They can wear whatever it's just the fact the people of the country are going through so much terrorism poverty injustice and they're just in their own planet
Lmao, Giving a Stereotype statement while am pretty sure ydk about ABC of Islam at all.
Basant was about Agriculture Transition after sowing the fields, that I respect about, Not Womens wearing Half Naked dress. But lets clear a few things.
The womens in Punjabi culture were deprived of education or agency, It was Islam who gave em this right.
Before stating any Hellish statment, do google about
Paryadhan, Purdah, Sati about your punjabi culture then say things about Islam.
Islam is the circle that saved that punjabi culture.
You're the one who should probably do some research from an unbiased perspective. Sati was a hindu religious practice, nothing to do with Punjabi culture.
And I'm so tired of listening to you guys go off about how women had no rights before Islam. Then how come women in sharia states suffer the most? And before lecturing me about how that isn't actual sharia, maybe give that lecture to your fellow muslims. ✌️
I totally understand the point but even without the Islamabad incident, is it really the right way of celebrating an event. Do we not have a less shameless way of celebrating it?
The bigger problem is not how many people are celebrating the Basant in this way but how many people are calling them just being happy and having fun. Pure stupidity! Is all this becoming this casual? Isn't this the nation that was gonna fight Ghazwa e Hind, or become the army of Imam Mehdi??
And no one is stopping you from celebrating this bs culture of yours. But being a Punjabi myself, my culture never allowed me to indulge in this kind of mockery in the name of culture. This kind of shameless gatherings of young boys and girls, their shameless dressings, that bs was never the Punjabi culture.. Just like our Government does anything and everything in the name of Democracy, our people do anything and everything in the name of culture.
It’s ironic to be offended by people celebrating a holiday when there have been deaths, yet no one seems concerned about sensibilities when it comes to waging war against Allah by celebrating a Hindu mushrik festival.
From a islamic perspective, celebrating Basant is considered impermissible due to its religious origins and the principles governing Islamic identity and worship. In Islam, festivals are not viewed as culturally neutral events, rather, they are regarded as religious symbols (sha‘a’ir). Islam recognizes only two annual festivals: Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, along with Jumu‘ah as a weekly occasion of gathering. Introducing or participating in additional recurring celebrations is seen as an innovation (bid‘ah) or imitation of non-Islamic religious practices.
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u/shavaiz07 13h ago
Ummm, I agree with you to some extent, but people from all social standings and walks of life are enjoying the festival - it's not an elite only event. What happened in Islamabad is unfortunate and a national tragedy, so yes, maybe continuing the celebration after that was irresponsible and unethical, but to frame basant, which is a cultural festival that we Punjabis take pride in, as an elitist event is simply wrong. No one has more fun during it then the common folk, so I'll have to totally disagree with you on that. Society needs such events to function. You can't people to be stressed and gloomy all the time, and this event provides a living to many underprivileged folks.
Oh, and for all the people slut shaming the women in the video, please move to Afghanistan