THIS is apropos your editorial ‘A hospital wedding’ (Oct 14).

Holding a wedding function on the weekend when schools or colleges are closed would not disturb the academic atmosphere.

Holding such a function on the lawns of an assembly chamber — when the house is not in session — would neither disturb the legislation process nor would it cause any botheration to lawmakers.

In the instant case, the series of wedding functions were arranged in a gated place to avoid the ‘raids’ of town administration officials and that is why these functions went on until the wee hours without any external ‘disturbance’.

While the family members of wedding organisers were celebrating to their full by dancing to the tunes of songs being played on a powerful sound system and several dholkis were also in their full spirit, people with broken limbs, women with stitched uteruses, infants with breathing disorders and persons with renal failures were lying helplessly on their stretchers.

Asad Siddiqui
Lahore

Published in Dawn, October 21st, 2014