THE PERILS OF PROHIBITION: Toxic liquor kills at least 32 in Pakistan.
The dead, mostly minority Christians, consumed the homemade liquor in the city of Toba Tek Singh.
Muslims are forbidden from buying or drinking alcohol in Pakistan – and minorities need a permit to buy liquor.
With alcohol sales tightly regulated, cheap homebrewed spirits often contain poisonous methanol.
It’s the latest case of deadly alcohol poisoning in Pakistan after 11 died in October, also in Punjab province.
To paraphrase Dr. Ian Malcolm, I’m simply saying that vice finds a way — and that way is usually worse than vice left alone.