Does this sort of thing remind you of the Chinese traditional medicine practice of writing out a prescription in neatly-formed characters on rice papers, then dissolving the paper in tea and drinking it?
Local residents have expressed anger after signboards inscribed with Quranic verses were dumped near a drain outside the NWFP Information Department. The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) government, soon after it assumed power, ordered various departments to put up signboards inscribed with Quranic verses on the roadsides in an effort to âpromote virtue and prevent viceâ. The NWFP Information Department also made a number of such signboards and stored them inside the department to be installed later on. However, on Thursday, department officials threw away these boards near a drain outside the department building to make room for the inauguration of a media centre. NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani will inaugurate the media centre later this week. âWe did not expect the desecration of Quranic verses by the MMA government which claims to promote an Islamic society in the province,â said Maher Ali who passed near the boards. He said that the signboards should have been placed somewhere else. |