all laws are designed in this way are they not? if families want to spend more money on weddings they are more than welcome to have major parties afterwards, the laws just imposed limits on what can be spent at the weddings to protect those vulnerable to abuse.
well like I implied, it is a punishment rather than a law... in that case it is unfair to punish the innocent.
perhaps the better approach would be to let ppl spend a certain amount in proportion with their annual income and no more, but then who knows what anyone's annual income is in Pak, we all know the tax evasion :)
Government needs to stay out of our personal lives... it is none of their business how much I want to spend in proportion to my salary.. what next... govt will also allow me which house to buy or which car to drive based on my salary? or even better where can I eat and hang-out based on my salary?
There is plenty of poverty in the cities, if ppl get out of defence and kda1, gulshan, north nazimabad, and head to ranchorr lines, landhi, aurangi etc you will see it first hand.
Haven't been to Karachi much but I have heard about some of the areas that you mentioned.. similar issues exist in Lahore as well... but I still think majority of poverty stricken communities are in villages.
Whether or not this law wasenforced properly is a diff thing, but the fact remains that something is needed to control this. laaton kay bhoot baaton say naheen mantay, sadly in pakistan there are many laton kay bhoot.
Law enforcement and its practicality is a very much relevant and important issue when you design any law. Without practical law it is a waste of everyone time and resources. As far as "latoon kay bhoot' thing is concerned, I have had this argument many times with a lot of desis... Why is it that we think that way... Pakistan has been always the victim of "laat" we rarely give it a chance for "baat"... we need to change that misconception and encourage more dialogue and less "laat" ... in the long run "laat" almost never works...
The corruption is a whole diff issue, one can not say a law makes no sense if there are ways to go around it, by rishwat people get away with not paying taxes, would you suggest that there should be no taxation either?
u have a valid point here but there is a diff between laws that directly affect other people and those that affect people personally... taxation is important and equally applied to everyone if you don't pay taxes you are cheating on your fellow country-men... if you throw a party with food at a wedding money is going out of your own pocket and will not affect someone who is attending the party...
*in my view law should be expanded to impose limits on dowry as well. The point is that people are being used and abused by this cultural ill. I dont like govt meddling in people's affairs..unless people have shown that they need to regulated. Sadly in pakistan, this is a huge problem for many families. *
yes some sort of restraint is needed.. and that calls for an awareness campaign that is truly backed by the social and cultural leaders and spokes-person... laws in such matters won't help much....
*awareness is great, and awareness is a longer term and better solution. However, until this awareness is everywhere, the problem remains, so a short term and long term approach is needed. *
It is like any project.. if you take the short-cut you will end-up with a messed-up system... you have to build a sound foundation and that might mean it might take a lot of effort and will cost in the initial phase but in the long run it is more effective. In some cases you have provide temp relief but that has to be compatible and potable with the long term solution. If in the relief period you push the people away from the ultimate solution people will not accept the final solution.