Re: Punjab Assembly passes resolution for banning concerts in educational institutes
jis college main miansaab,choori saab aur shah saab kay bachay parhtay hain wahan espeshial permission bhee mil jani hai.
aab chotay miansaab eik task force ban`ain gai, navi cars issue hoon ge chapoon kay liay....yeh bayghairat loog phusi bhee apna faida daikh kay martay hain.
Agar...agar time mila tau chotay miansaab scotter pay bhee chapa marnay ko tyar hoon gai
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Yea ban all the concert and allow speeches like this
Jiyaaa Bhutooo . . . mill ka lutoo 
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We do not have Punjab PA in KSA otherwise ........
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Why do we send kids (male or female) to colleges? to attend concerts? to attend mix parties? to dance at the concerts held in or by the schools were the renowned marasies along with their teams will sing and ask people to dance with them or at their tunes???? if this is motive to send kids at school or college or university then yes by all mean PA resolution was wrong...
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cant stop the illegal manjha makers, ban Basant!
cant stop target killings, ban Double sawari!
cant make good films, ban Bollywood!
cant stop stampedes , ban concerts!
Ban ban ban ban.....ban everything.
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Why do we send kids (male or female) to colleges? to attend concerts? to attend mix parties? to dance at the concerts held in or by the schools were the renowned marasies along with their teams will sing and ask people to dance with them or at their tunes???? if this is motive to send kids at school or college or university then yes by all mean PA resolution was wrong...
This is NOT the motive to send students to schools and colleges. But our country is already devoid of entertainment platforms. (Lack of theme parks, cinemas, excursion activities, playing parks for sports) and Government saw fit to close another channel RATHER than creating a task force to tackle the issues faced in that particular incident at Alhamra. But no, lets ban those events. Well done!
bunch of tunnel vision politicians. Ban everything.
Pakistan
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3 girls died... 3 girls dont die in a stampede every other day, and concerts are not banned, only the educational institutes cant organize concerts any more.
**I am with Punjab government on this one
**can't just dismiss the deaths of 3 girls as being one of those things... such things should never happen and if the schools/colleges are incompetent in organising simple events like this then they don't deserve to have them on their premises
Concerts happen in colleges universities every week and one event was ended in tragedy. Rather than creating a certain decorum for them, we should ban them altogether?
and lafanter, I believe you live in lahore right? How many concerts or cultural events happen without the sponsorship or involvement of an educational institute?
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This is NOT the motive to send students to schools and colleges. But our country is already devoid of entertainment platforms. (Lack of theme parks, cinemas, excursion activities, playing parks for sports) and Government saw fit to close another channel RATHER than creating a task force to tackle the issues faced in that particular incident at Alhamra. But no, lets ban those events. Well done!
bunch of tunnel vision politicians. Ban everything.
Pakistan
Because we don't have other parks, we resort to concerts in school/colleges and consider them healthy activity as they are alternative of the activities they suppose to do in parks .. good to know that!!!
Re: Punjab Assembly passes resolution for banning concerts in educational institutes
Because we don't have other parks, we resort to concerts in school/colleges and consider them healthy activity as they are alternative of the activities they suppose to do in parks .. good to know that!!!
They are means of entertainment! and Government should give alternatives to students. But we both can see that is not gonna happen. At the very least let them have extra curricular activities and means of enjoyment.
Govt should enorce closures of illegal pubs and mujra places in posh areas rather than banning such events. One event has gone horribly wrong NOT because of students but because of inept administration, (college and security)
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yeah because there are some illegal pubs concerts should be allowed and next thing would be, give these pubs legal status.... good going
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i will be the devil's advocate here... whats wrong with banning musical concerts in educational institutes?
i'm all for it... and as far as i remember, in 2009 stage mujras were also banned in punjab, there were several protests by so called stage dancers and all, dont know if the ban is still in place.
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I dont think the mujras are banned now (they were for a short time), all these things are cosmetic! After a few days everything will be normal.
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^ you may be right, because i remember there were protests all over, even on live tv talk shows people were saying its like stealing their job without giving them any substitute : / we are never happy...
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I remember a time, in late 80's I went to Alhamra to watch a stage drama with my parents, the theatre was filled to the brim with all educated people and the actors like qavi khan, irfan khoosat and the likes and the drama used to be family drama and then I remember watching one in 2000's in alhamra, it was filled up with sensual scenes, dances and vulgar dialogues and the people watching it were taxi drivers, bus drivers (including me and my friend of course). Now you cant see the dramas there with your family.
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[FONT=Georgia, ‘Times New Roman’, Times, serif]A horrible mess
I had planned to write about the terrible mess the Lahore Arts Council (LAC) is in where there are less arts and more tarts. And then this tragic Monday night stampede happened at LAC’s Alhamra Complex where three young ladies lost their lives with many more injured. It was a disaster waiting to happen. Now a shameless blame game has started with the LAC accusing the college authorities whose security had ‘taken over’ the complex and of course the college (ten staffers are arrested) doing the opposite.
The so-termed ‘security gates,’ the goon squads that ‘operate’ them, the complete absence of any exit plan or emergency evacuation procedures has been absent for years. Given the highly dictatorial nature of the LAC, not even a fly can buzz in the premises without their holy NOC. No one can ‘take over’ their turf. They abdicated their responsibility to people who wear uniforms and carry staves and guns. That is not a system. But the ill qualified, inept and shameless ‘babus’ will out-survive this one too. No one will be punished, an enquiry will be righteously launched and if at all any ‘action’ is taken it would be a mere transfer of a lowly official and as soon as the heat is off, status quo would be restored.
It is a sign of things to come that the LAC ED, the loony DMG, has already revealed that the incident took place outside the Alhamra. Thus they are automatically absolved. For this alone he should be sacked but he is well-connected and is now a permanent cultural feature.
The LAC rules over five halls, an open air theatre and an art gallery. It is run ostensibly by a hand-picked and nominated board of governors (BOG) but mostly to oblige political cronies, black-mailing columnists and other riff-raff. As and when some of the more qualified men and women have been able to get to the BOG, they have been unable to get anything substantial or meaningful done.
Roadblocks are raised and any progressive ideas are shot down. Its mission ‘to promote and preserve Pakistani art tradition and support artists from all genres financially and otherwise,’ is mythical stuff. The LAC has never been the helping, generous and accommodating organisation it was meant to be. Instead its mandate is to routinely place bureaucratic impediments in the path of anyone foolish enough to use this public facility. Its vision has been, and continues to be, flawed by petty officials, morality-laden pundits and do-gooders; men with tunnel vision and minds dirtier than the sewerage of Gujjar Khan.
The LAC apathy is encouraged by a government that sees little merit in promoting genuine art – fat, over painted women in cheap gaudy dresses belting out hot numbers on pre-recorded music to an all-male audience of lecherous and lewd men is not art, but it fetches money and lurid pleasures. Thus these ‘mujras’ are encouraged and acceptable. A school play however will be put through the wringer, each line of its script placed under a microscope and its most innocent scenes subjected to severe and capricious censorship. It’s been like that for years. I think the province currently has no culture minister but the previous one was, believe it or not, a doctor.
Traditionally, those not representing cheap commercial theatre or work directed at praising the ruling junta have had a hard time.** For the past 30 years, professional, amateur groups, even school plays have been given the run around, charged at will and harassed. But when the flesh brigades arrive by 10 pm out go the rules. From thereon, it’s ‘a boy’s night out.’**
In 2009, a director was sandwiched between a school production in the afternoons and his own drama giving him less than 30 minutes to clean up the stage, have his set in place and then dismantle it before the 10 pm revelries. He opted for movable props. Two years on, 2011, things were the same. One of the best dance troupes from Karachi was charged a walloping Rs36, 000 daily. The booking in charge also delivered a monolog on morality, ethics, the hereafter, culture and indecency. Pakistan’s bugbear, the morality code lives at the LAC! The LAC is a disaster and needs to be set right.
The problem is so is Pakistan. Rocked from year to year by intrigues, betrayals, treachery, lies, deceit, memos, leaks, rumours, denials, hypocrisy, rotten governance and unimaginable corruption, it is commonplace to hear about trains going off the rails, boats capsizing, ships running aground, speeding cars killing randomly, bridges collapsing, flyovers flailing, underpasses flooding like WCs, air disasters galore, overloaded Fokkers crashing in Multan, a super modern airliner plunging into a hillside, toxic waste materials wasting away hundreds of innocent rustic folk with incurable diseases in Kasur and fires and gas blasts regularly engulfing entire localities. The list is sickening.
The prime minister is murdered but hold on – the killers’ identity will be revealed at an appropriate time. Hotels, public buildings and key offices, centres of commerce and industry are regularly blown to smithereens killing hundreds but never a meaningful arrest made. The Mehran Base blatantly infiltrated, planes worth millions of dollars up in smoke and the raiders sauntering about as if on a Sunday picnic, but mercifully the base commander’s spanking white BMW comes to no harm and in words that are now fairly famous, ‘security is not compromised.’
Before that Ojri Camp, later that the Kargil caper both causing heavy losses of lives and property but no heads are ever seen rolling, other than ‘lotas’ of which there never is any shortage. The most laughable statement in Pakistan is that ‘the perpetrators of this heinous crime shall be brought to book.’ This farcical nonsense in a country, where in any event, no one reads any book. The fact is neither is anyone held responsible nor is anyone ever punished and that is the way it will be till the cows come home if there are any cows left other than holy ones.
The Complex at Lahore is mal-administered day after day and year after year. Unless a fresh, deserving and emancipated group of people linked with the performing arts are given charge nothing good will come out from here. The halls are run down, the equipment obsolete, the carpets sodden, the aisles rat-infested. An air of staleness symbolically hangs over all the LAC strongholds and now we can add death to it.
The LAC in its current dispensation must be dissolved. The mismanagement has gone on unchecked for too long thanks to people who have connived and used contacts to keep things the way they are. Expecting these graveyards to produce something alive and refreshing is foolish. Hundreds of youngsters lounge about in Lahore dying for an opportunity to play music to thousands of waiting fans and yet after pursuing this holy grail for over a year piled with proposals, budgets, rationales, plans shared with one of Punjab’s most enlightened and cultured official, I drew a fat blank. The proposal hopped along to the secretary information who passed it deftly to his number two who sat down quietly on it and smothered it to death. There is only so much ping-pong one can play, so I gave up.
Which means we all should not. We should demand a change in the LAC so that the needless deaths of three innocents aren’t in vain. I guess it is too much to ask the chairman – once a fan of Zia ul Haq and perhaps the only ambassador to Norway who remained in Pakistan, of LAC to resign? It happened on his watch and on his property but then, as the cynics would say, so what?
The writer is a Lahore-based columnist. Email: [email protected]?ID=87655&Cat=9"]](The News International: Latest News Breaking, World, Entertainment, Royal News)
Re: Punjab Assembly passes resolution for banning concerts in educational institutes
yeah because there are some illegal pubs concerts should be allowed and next thing would be, give these pubs legal status.... good going
Nothing to object .
If people of Lahore like this .
Let them do .
More Music , More ........
More tourism , More money .
Qauid e Azam was a Lawyer .
Liaqat Ali Khan was a politician
Bhutto was a Lawyer and lecturer
Benazir was a politician
Nawaz Sharif is a business man
And
.......... Model and .......
will give you what he have .
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Nothing to object .
If people of Lahore like this .
Let them do .
More Music , More ........
More tourism , More money .
Qauid e Azam was a Lawyer .
Liaqat Ali Khan was a politician
Bhutto was a Lawyer and lecturer
Benazir was a politician
Nawaz Sharif is a business man
And
.......... Model and .......
will give you what he have .
I don't think Bilawal is a model.
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I don't think Bilawal is a model.
Allah us ko Iman aur Zindgi day
You are right
He is not a model
Allah usay achha aur naik insan banay
We can prey for him .
Re: Punjab Assembly passes resolution for banning concerts in educational institutes
janaab look what people’s party in Punjab is doing…
‘Objectionable’ concerts: Opposition walks out of Punjab Assembly session](http://tribune.com.pk/story/326913/objectionable-concerts-opposition-walks-out-of-punjab-assembly-session/)
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A new resolution regarding the present ban will be coming tomorrow…i thought they will take some days in reversal but in one day? :smack: Its very strange to see someone from people’s party talking against ‘cultural activities’. In Punjab historically most of the people belonging to the film industry have always been the staunch supporters of PPP.
Lahore -** Pakistan Peoples Party MPA Sajida Mir has submitted a resolution in Punjab Assembly to promote cultural activities in educational institutions.
In her resolution, the PPP lawmaker said that music played vital role in promotion of culture, therefore, music should not be banned in educational institutions.
**The resolution further said that any move to ban music will not be accepted at any cost.
On the other, the PMQ lawmaker Seemal Kamran whose resolution demanding ban on musical concerts was adopted by Punjab Assembly on Tuesday, , said that she had no bad intentions and would support Ms Mir’s resolution.
Though Punjab Government’s spokesman Pervez Rashid had clarified that Punjab government was not against musical concerts in Schools and Colleges of the province, the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz had supported and helped passed the resolution from the house on Tuesday that created furor.