Oh ok wow, didnt know! So can you get it in stores and restaurants too?
i can only speak for karachi because i have lived there. i know that there are alcohol suppliers in khi there are even 2 stores i know of in defence that sell alcohol in their back rooms. the only 2 restaurants i know in khi that serve alcohol are Pompei (an upscale italian restaurant, they have the best italian in the city and that isnt saying much since the others really suck) the second i forgot the name of but it is a very good Korean restaurant near II Chundrigar rd.
Just curious Sumorani, I thought you were married in Karachi, isnt alcohol illegal in Pakistan?
I think the only way you can obtain it legally is if you have a 5 star or better hotel because of the non-muslim folks that come there. even that had some debate going on so i dont really know exactly if there is any way you can obtain it legally.
that being said, most alcohol that comes into the country, gets in illegaly and for you to obtain it, either you must know the supplier or know people at the airport/customs to get u cleared and not check ur bags and if u dont know them personally, u gotta bribe them either with money or with the alcohol itself. funny how i know about all this and nothign about my finals next week!
I think the only way you can obtain it legally is if you have a 5 star or better hotel because of the non-muslim folks that come there. even that had some debate going on so i dont really know exactly if there is any way you can obtain it legally.
that being said, most alcohol that comes into the country, gets in illegaly and for you to obtain it, either you must know the supplier or know people at the airport/customs to get u cleared and not check ur bags and if u dont know them personally, u gotta bribe them either with money or with the alcohol itself. funny how i know about all this and nothign about my finals next week!
hii, if i remember correct, u told that alcohol was served at ur wedding. i figured it took place out of pak, but it was in khi?
If i may ask were there that many non-muslim guests at ur wedding, that alcohol was served.
im jus wondering, if u dont want to answer it ok ;)
Fruit juice, or some kind of other silly horrible tasting drink. In Mideast countries they sell this "Mousse" and "Barbican" stuff which is supposed to taste like bad beer. That stuff tastes like puke. Put some daal in water, and then drink that water. Same thing.
That sounds disgusting. I'm sure the real stuff tastes better naaaa :~)
in our families....nothing of that sort happens... males have their own entrance and females have their own... on wedding day, groom sits on male side and bride on female side.. on male's side..we start off with talawat and hamd o sana. Later on groom goes to the female side where he sits with the female... and families take pictures standing behind the married couple and stuff...
joota churai, doodh pilaai and all these non-sense stuff too..but i guess this stuff is being done for sucha long time.. so its all good...but dancing to door ki baat ...males and females normally have different sections to sit... only at the end of the nights when guests are gone.. close relatives can meet in any of the men or ladies section..
no dancing, no bar and stuff, no non-alcoholic shampaigne, kissing etc... thats disturbing.
^it's fine however you guys do it. obviously every family has their own traditions. but i think its wrong to call jootha chupai and dood pilai nonsense. its an important tradition in many pakistani muslim families like mine and i definitely do not consider it nonsense even though it's not an islamic tradition. it's just something that brings joy and happiness to my family so we have it at every wedding and think its a great part of our weddings. however, i see your point of view but just think its wrong that someone would call it nonsense.
Just curious Sumorani, I thought you were married in Karachi, isnt alcohol illegal in Pakistan?
Most of the weddings I've been to that had open bars and super fashionably clad guests and dance floors were in Lahore and Karachi. If anything, the Pakistani (and Indian Muslim) weddings I've been to in the US/UK were more generally more conservative than the ones in Pakistan itself. I've even been to weddings here that were segregated by gender...something I have yet to see in Pakistan.