Many people are so terrified of lizards that they have developed a phobia of them. On seeing a lizard they become so upset that they cannot be in the same room as the lizard. Both men and women are equally stricken with fear and horror of lizards, but for different reasons. Women hate lizards because they are creepy and ugly. Men hate lizards because they are forced by their screaming wives to turn into hunters of the Serengeti and kill the lizard at any cost. The agility and movement it takes to kill a lizard is enough to make Rudolf Nuryev seethe with jealousy, but as very few men ever wanted to be ballet dancers, this is not an advantage to killing lizards in the eyes of the average Pakistani man.
      Despite our strong cultural conditioning, I believe we should outgrow our fear of lizards and make friends with the little creatures. No matter how many of them we kill, there are always going to be more, so we need to rethink our approach to them. Perhaps you may not be ready to replace your family dog or cat with a green gecko, but consider the fact that you may someday able to train your household lizards to eat the cockroaches that are hiding in your drains. Now, there’s some food for thought.