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A test of patience
I am impressed that at last someone has the courage to raise such pertinent questions, unfortunately he either did not care or did not dare to answer them, the mother of all the questions being, in the words of Amar Jaleel himself, ‘what prompted our leaders to plead for an independent country for the Muslims of the subcontinent?’ The article leaves the reader probing into the dark. Will Mr Jaleel answer these questions himself! SALAHUDDIN MIRZA Karachi The perennial outcasts With reference to the article The perennial outcasts (February 27), we live in a society where communal intolerance is rife, religious prejudice is commonplace and which is plagued by a obsessive self-hatred of the coloured skin. A complex and historic society is reduced to poorly written snippets — almost akin to a colonial traveller describing the natives for his family back in the civilized world. Who is the writer to tell us that the men of the Changgar tribe are idle and good for nothing, or that education is something alien to gypsies, or even that the men of the Patu tribe are not hardworking? What criteria does he base these assumptions on? By whose cultural standards is he judging these communities? Who says that our society is the civilized one and they wish to join it? Their (the gypsies’) eagerness to become part of the civilized society has yet not diminished. Perhaps many of them do want to leave the nomadic life and join a settled urban or rural lifestyle. SERGIO TARIQ Karachi Wedding meals With reference to the article Wedding meals (February 13), there are those who have nothing to eat because of the existing poverty in our country and the lives of these people appear to be in distress, following the ban on meals at weddings. The only way for them is to rely on wedding parties and other events for their survival because they have no other sources to earn. SUDHEER AHMED Turbat, Balochistan | ||
With reference to the article A test of patience (February 27), I want to point out that pilgrims are suppose to go by feet, rather than wasting their time by sitting in buses for long hours. But, it seems to me that the writer went to Mecca and Medina expecting some sort of a picnic and was not prepared for the rigours of Haj.|
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