After the lull in festivity occasioned by Ashura, the wedding season has been resumed and people are anxious to marry off their daughters and find rich brides for their sons before the onset of summer.
Nobody is bothered by the restriction on wedding feasts, for there are ways to break the ban.
I am not going to talk about VIP weddings today but about marriages that became known through the press because of one oddity or another. These reports about marriages, new and not so new, were culled by me in the recent past from Urdu newspapers which normally put a premium on this kind of news. They are just to show you the variety of human behavior and to prove the adage that it takes all sorts to make this world, as also to portray the sanctity that men accord to the institution of marriage. I start from Chakwal. In a village there an 80-year old man got himself married to a girl of eighteen.