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Can there be anything more stupid than the imposition of a fine of Rs200,000 by the Parliamentary Committee on Sports on the members of the Pakistan hockey team for ‘hugging a woman’, an officially assigned liaison officer, during a social get-together at the conclusion of the 2009 Champion’s Challenge Tournament in Argentina? Hugging is a ‘benign’ expression of affection between two individuals. Only perverted minds would construe this normal human gesture as being immoral.
Hugging is a common practice and a social ritual even in Pakistan where friends and relatives hug each other during wedding ceremonies, family and other social events. It is ironic that not a single parliamentarian had the moral courage to speak up when one of their own colleagues, a federal minister of state, was recently apprehended from a clandestinely operated Islamabad massage parlour. So much for the pseudo moralists of parliament. |
Mohammed Abbasi 