Valentine's Day in Pakistan

Valentine's day is celebrated on 14^th Feb every year around the world. It is a traditional day when lovers express their love, affection to their loved ones by exchanging love cards, presenting flowers, chocolates and other gifts. Now coming to Pakistan as how we as a nation and individuals are celebrating. I have noticed that since year 2000 the popularity graph in Pakistan regarding the valentines day has been increased tremendously. This could be one of the reason of soft policies and encouragement of such events on government level. But this doesn't mean that I am only criticizing government, because it is the response of the people which make this day very special. This year 2008, valentines day was celebrated with great excitement, mostly popular among young boys and girls from colleges, universities as they go for dating in different places which was regretful for me and I condemn. Even different programs shown on television including Dramas, musical concerts and dances were totally disgraceful and vulgar . Compared to other western channel I don't see such enthusiasm in other channels as our Pakistani channels showed on 14 Feb. This mean we are more eager and excited about this event and making this day more popular through media to our audience. Lots of people would call me as a person with extreme views and they will consider this as entertainment. Pakistan needs a healthy entertainment not projection of such crap events. According to our cultural and religious values this look very unethical. At the same time on government level several functions were organized which directly promotes this event. Often I get very stucked that as a nation where we stand? We can be termed as “ Confused Nation”- because we are neither promoting our values, ethics neither we are fully going away from our culture- just standing in the middle- no where. I am not a person with extreme views, but I am in strong favor of adopting our values and by westernizing we are loosing our identity. We should celebrate our national events with great involvement and events like Valentines day which are against our cultural values should be discouraged.