Musical concert claims three lives in Lahore
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 1:42:52 by Faisal Farooq
In a tragic incident, three students have lost their lives in a musical concert, held in Alhamra Cultural Complex, Lahore. The gathering that was organized to make the evening pleasant became a dreadful when three girls died in a chaos.
The details are quite depressing that can harm of whatever is left. Our prayers are with the departed souls and may their aggrieving parents have the patience to bear the loss. Apart from the sorrow, we should vent the anger while sorting out the true causes of the incident.
It was the stampede that killed the young girls but not the concert. In the recent times, crowd goes wild with psychosis either at open places or shrines, causing deaths of many people. Anyplace whether it is pub or worship place converts into a death trap when panic strikes them.
The stampede that occurred in Lahore was no different from that. One of the main factors was the poor management and lack of security for such places.
In Pakistan, it is out of fashion to educate the participants of big gatherings about emergency exits. In this particular case, no sign boards were placed in the hall describing the exit routes and people got suffocated due to small escaping door.
Due to suffocation three girls lost their lives while many sustained injuries in case of stampede. Mostly people are blaming poor management responsible for the dreadful incident.
An analyst spoke about another factor in the list of charges. It is about the eve teasers who take advantage of the presence of females.
It seems that the eve teasers, who are accurately like a group having dirty tricks to impose themselves, spread a hoax bomb panic and compelled the hapless girls to go for escape.
Apparently these eve teasers were the real culprits behind the stampede. These groups have been developed with the social setup that does not educate males how to connect with girls as decent segments of the culture.
The larger point comes out of the last day incident is that we are no ready to learn civilized norms and values.
In short, if we want to prevent ourselves from such dreadful incidents, we should teach people about how to deal with the opposite gender.
Tags: Alhamra Cultural Complex, chaos, Musical concert, Pakistan, stampede
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Posted by Faisal Farooq
on Jan 11 2012. Filed under Opinion, Pakistan, Society.
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my sympatheis with the parents and my prayers with the departed souls. let join in pondering that we as parents and as a nation divert our attention to nobler causes. do the circumstances and the prevailing conditions permit us to arrange fashion shows ,concerts and other such like activities. we are yet to settle the flood affecties of the last two years the blood baths in kpk the greviences of our brothers in balochistan, the killings in karachi, the corruption ridden society the religious intolerances. still if our brothers and sisters at karachi desire holding of such events inescapable then they maykeep on going. if we are so enthusiastic and keen what we have done forour dear arfa karim fighting the battle for life some where around the venue of the musical concert? this whole money could have been diverted to such cause. may Allah guide us to the right path..