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Posted online: Monday , December 10, 2007
Islamabad, December 10: Pakistan's Muslims, including women and adolescents, are more prone to becoming addicted to liquor than members of other communities, says a new study.
Through data collected over five years, Waseem Haider, a surgeon at the Medico-Legal Punjab office in Lahore, found that addiction to alcohol is far higher among Muslim men and women in urban areas than members of the Christian, Hindu and other minority communities.
The age-wise analysis of cases shows that even children aged between 10 and 15 years were consuming alcohol.
The highest number of cases -- 42.56 per cent -- involved teenagers and young adults between 16 and 25 years.
The Pakistan government introduced strict restrictions on the sale and consumption of liquor in 1977 and alcohol is sold only to non-Muslims possessing special permits through some 60 outlets across the country.
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Pa...-others/248739/
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Why is it illegal for the faithfuls to practice for the after-life in jannat? And are the rest getting intoxicated listening to beautiful Urdu gazals?
Posted online: Monday , December 10, 2007
Islamabad, December 10: Pakistan's Muslims, including women and adolescents, are more prone to becoming addicted to liquor than members of other communities, says a new study.
Through data collected over five years, Waseem Haider, a surgeon at the Medico-Legal Punjab office in Lahore, found that addiction to alcohol is far higher among Muslim men and women in urban areas than members of the Christian, Hindu and other minority communities.
The age-wise analysis of cases shows that even children aged between 10 and 15 years were consuming alcohol.
The highest number of cases -- 42.56 per cent -- involved teenagers and young adults between 16 and 25 years.
The Pakistan government introduced strict restrictions on the sale and consumption of liquor in 1977 and alcohol is sold only to non-Muslims possessing special permits through some 60 outlets across the country.
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Pa...-others/248739/
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Why is it illegal for the faithfuls to practice for the after-life in jannat? And are the rest getting intoxicated listening to beautiful Urdu gazals?