Pakistan bans wedding feasts.

[Michael Fisher]

Guests go hungry as Pakistan bans wedding feasts
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050116/lf_afp/afplifestylepakistan_050116233302

The ban has prompted an angry debate in Pakistan. Rights activists and some religious figures welcome it as an important step in tackling the poverty that afflicts around a third of the country's population.

This expenditure is a "big social menace", according to Naeem Mirza, a human rights activist with the Aurat Foundation, a womens' advocacy group.

"Human rights activists" welcome this?? LOL? Sounds like the same idiots here in the US.

Here's another look at it:

ECONOMY: Ban, ban, ban - Miguel Loureiro
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_22-12-2004_pg3_5

"In Pakistan governments have banned political parties, public meetings and processions, demonstrations, student unions, theatre plays, Indian films, Indian news channels, flying kites, government adverts in certain newspapers, meals at weddings, and so on."

bleh!

[Russell Kanning]

Maybe they should just take all the food from the rich people who like to have parties and just give it to those that can't.