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Valentine's or Haya Day? Different perspectives to celebrate 14th February

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One part of Pakistani society is celebrating it as the day of love.

(Web-Desk) – Valentine’s Day is being celebrated across the world every year on 14th of February as the day of loved ones however the perspective of celebrating this day in Pakistan is quite different and conservative. An interesting series of Valentine’s Day posts has been observed today on social media, specifically trending on Twitter.

One part of Pakistani society is celebrating it as the day of love and posting accordingly on social platforms whereas the others have been observing and promoting this day as “Haya Day” which implies that women should stay in veil and anything which could be a way of losing their dignity, such traditions and events shouldn’t be observed. It was something unique yet interestingcirculatingon Twitter as the top trend was “Valentines”, while “Haya Day 2k19” ranked on the second.

A sweet and sour cocktail of tweets portrayedmarvelous expressions of wishing Valentine’s Day to the loved ones with bunch of red roses and caption studded with heart emoticons while other tweets had an odd tone depicting a harsh opposition towards the concept of celebrating this day.

Apart from that, a number of tweets were done in humorous way and that worked as cherry on top.

Along with the general public, Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari also posted such a warm wish on Valentine’s Day for her siblings. Have a look at Twitter stream for today:

And then… turning the essence of the aforementioned post into something sour, this tweet had alsoto say something important:

Umm… Alright… that was another angle to the significance of 14th February.

Ok… moving on….

Another girl was quite gloomy about the fact that Muslims are also celebrating this day at the fullest:

Hmmm… she is right too… but who thinks so deeply when happiness is on the way!

Among these significant tweets, some of the followers added up humor in this way:

Oops! That s horrific…!

Well… I wasn’t sure about this post that whether it was to oppose the concept of celebrating Valentine’s Day or he had some sort of grief of not being among the ones who are enjoying this day with their loved ones at the best. Have a look!

This guy wished Valentine’s Day in a different manner while giving voice to everyone’s emotions associated to this special day:

Gotcha!! So… in which category you lie?

Looking into the recent past, University of Faisalabad also announced to name Valentine’s Day as “Sisters Day” while rejecting the idea of celebrating it as the day of loved ones considering it against the teachings of Islam. However, it received great criticism as well because everyone called it a conservative thought. Well… anyone can differ in opinion.

Remembering this idea, a guy tweeted:

But I wonder… why not “Sisters & Brothers Day”??

Where people are celebrating 14thFebruary as per their own perspectives, the cricket lovers have something better to focus on today and it is the PSL 4 fever shouting out loud. This tweet has enough to sayabout it:

So… Wrapping up the Tweet series here, I must say… it’s totally up to you now that how you are celebrating this day! 

Written By: WardahFarooqi

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