siddique said:
lamha e fikriya for believers, contemplate brothers and sisters.
Celebrating Valentines Day and Basant or not Celebrating is one thing, but first of all it is very necessary to Tell the Truth and not to invent the Lies in order to achieve your aims.
I am afraid that Religious People like Writer of this Column is telling the Lies in order to achieve his aims and spreading hatred through his lies.
His story of Valentines Day is either a Lie or almost non-existant story. He want to create hatred against Saint Valentine by accusing him of doing ZINA.
I ask people to read about Saint Valentine for themselves at Wikipedia.com
From Wikipedia:
... Valentine as a priest who refused an unattested law attributed to Roman Emperor Claudius II, allegedly ordering that young men remain single. The Emperor supposedly did this to grow his army, believing that married men did not make for good soldiers. The priest Valentine, however, secretly performed marriage ceremonies for young men. When Claudius found out about this, he had Valentine arrested and thrown in jail. In an embellishment to The Golden Legend provided by American Greetings, Inc. to History.com and widely repeated, on the evening before Valentine was to be executed, he wrote the first "valentine" himself, addressed to a young girl variously identified as his beloved,[17] as the jailer's daughter whom he had befriended and healed,[18] or both. It was a note that read "From your Valentine."[17]
Link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentines_day
And I am also absolutely not sure about his story of Basant etc and it also seems to be a lie.
Actually now body know in India or Pakistan about such story of Basant, but it has been celebrated as "Cultural" festival instead of any "Religious Festival"
By the say, people Abusing Musharraf for promoting the Basant. Perhaps some one Post the Photos of Respectable Grand Imran Khan too where he used too to celebrate Basant in Lahore. Nevertheless, all the bad language is reserved for Musharraf and Imran khan is Angel and above any criticism. This is the Insaaf of supporters of Imran Khan unfortunately.