巴基斯坦總統呼籲國民抵制情人節

Pakistan's president has denounced St Valentine's Day, saying the festival has no connection with Pakistani culture and should be avoided. His remarks came after a district in north-western Pakistan banned Valentine's Day celebrations.

近日，巴基斯坦總統公開抨擊情人節，稱這一節日和巴基斯坦文化毫無關係，應該被禁止。他的這一言論是在巴基斯坦西北部某地區禁止情人節後發出的。

Valentine's Day is popular in many cities in Pakistan, but religious groups have denounced it as decadent.

在巴基斯坦的很多城市，情人節很盛行，但是一些宗教團體則稱，這是一種衰敗的現象。

Earlier this week, the local government in Kohat, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, told police officers to stop shops from selling Valentine's Day cards and items. Kohat district is run by a religious political party and borders Pakistan's conservative tribal areas.

在本週的早些時候，開伯爾·普赫圖赫瓦省的科哈特地區的當地政府，要求警察禁止商店出售情人節卡片和相關物品。科哈特地區是由宗教政治黨派領導的，該地區與巴基斯坦保守部落地區接壤。

Meanwhile, the Peshawar local council also passed a resolution to ban celebrations of what it called a "useless" day.

與此同時，白沙瓦地方議會也通過一項決議，禁止慶祝這所謂的“毫無用處”的一天。

Kohat district administrator Maulana Niaz Muhammad told the BBC Urdu: "Valentine's Day has no legal grounds, and secondly it is against our religion, therefore it was banned." While giving cards and flowers was not in itself a bad thing, linking this to a specific day was not appropriate, Mr Muhammad said. He added that he felt such practices could encourage obscene behavior.

科哈特地區的行政官毛拉納·尼亞茲·穆罕默德告訴BBC烏爾都頻道：首先，情人節不合法，其次，它和我們的宗教相違背，因此被禁止了。” 穆罕默德表示，儘管贈送卡片和鮮花本身是件好事，但把它和特定的節日相聯繫就不合適了。隨後他還補充道，他認爲這些行爲會鼓勵人們做出下流的作爲。

In past years, conservative social groups, who view the day as a festival of immorality detrimental to traditional marriage, have declared the day to be "shameless".

在過去幾年裏，保守社會團體一直將這一節日視作對傳統婚姻的道德損害，他們宣稱這個節日是“無恥的”。

In neighbouring India, Valentine's Day also garners opposition, usually from Hindu conservatives who say it is alien to Indian culture and - as argued by Pakistani Muslims - contrary to traditions such as arranged marriages.

在鄰國印度，情人節也備受反對，印度教保守派常說該節日是“外來物”，就好像巴基斯坦穆斯林說它有反包辦婚姻的傳統一樣。