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Wake up, woman
Sharif Park in a shambles WITH reference to the article Sharif Park in a shambles (September 8) the pathetic state of the Park has been rightly pointed out. Also known as Rawalpindi’s Shamsabad Public Park, the place is an ironic symbol of gross negligence and plundering of the public money in millions, with regard to the unfinished and incomplete project of the construction of Lahore’s Shalimar Garden prototype in the park. This project, as it seems through its rotten structure, suggests that it would have had massive waterfall, ponds, waterways and extra-huge fountains. However, what has happened is that after having spent millions of rupees of tax-payer’s money, construction work was abandoned all of a sudden and without assigning any reason to this effect to the public. Now with the passage of years, the structural elements have worn out, massive layers of rust have eaten the steel rods of fountains and other areas. The marble slabs of the waterways and fountains peripheries have either been stolen or are dilapidated. May I ask the District and Tehsil Nazims of Rawalpindi who otherwise always claim to be the guardian of city’s aesthetic beauty and public money, to please check the rust that is constantly eating the public money, in shape of the gross negligence towards the incomplete project of Shalimar Garden prototype at Sharif Park, Rawalpindi? GULZAR AFAQI Rawalpindi Illiterate moulvis WITH reference to Mr Ateeq Ur Rahman’s letter (September 21), he is as wide off the mark as one can possibly be. Unlike in Hinduism or Christianity, there is no priest or Brahmin class in Islam. The Qur’aan is quite unequivocal on this point. Mr Ateeq would do well to read Verse 110 of Surah Aale Imran. This is one of the basic tenets of Muslim conduct and is reiterated at several places in the Qur’aan When we stand before Allah on the Day of Judgment it will be each man (and woman) for himself/herself. No one will be able to blame another for his own lack of knowledge of Islamic injunctions or to lay the blame for his/her acts of omission and commission at the door of another, pleading ignorance or lack of guidance. Incidentally, the term illiterate moulvi is a contradiction in terms: a Moulvi is the term applicable to a learned person! WAJID NAEEMUDDIN Karachi Mystery of the Tomb of Mary WITH reference to the piece Mystery of the Tomb of Mary (September 21), I, like many others, never knew it existed, but I am always fascinated by such kind of mysteries. In fact I want to know more about this site, how can they remove the tomb of such a great religious figure? And what if it really does belong to her? It’s possible. NAILA HUSSAIN Lahore CORRECTION IN the article, The cosmological twist (October 12), the distance of a light year has been mistakenly mentioned as 6,570,000km whereas it should read, 9,460,800 million kilometres or 9.46 x 10 raised to the power of 12. The figure mix-up is regretted. | ||
WITH reference to the article Wake up, woman (September 14), I would like to add that since time immemorial, women have been “WOW” for men. They have been bought, used, and disposed off like tissue paper.|
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