Free ‘Iftari’ for less fortunate people

Islamabad
A number of philanthropists and mosque committees have arranged free ‘Iftar Sherbat’ in addition to ‘Iftar’ dinners for less fortunate people enabling them break their daily fast at various places in the twin cities.
They have set up temporary roadside tables and mats to provide free ‘Sherbat’ and ‘Iftar’ meals for the poor needy and lonely. A number of people including labourers passersby and others belonging to under privileged class break their fast with ‘Sherbat’ which is very useful in present hot weather condition.
It is observed that a lot number of people come forward and arrange free ‘Sherbat’ and food to help the needy especially in the holy month of Ramazan Saleem Khan a resident of I-10 Sector commented.
He said that Ramazan is a month of fasting it is also a time for community to provide their brethren who are poor and needy an opportunity to break their fast and eat together. Businessman Rashid Iqbal Soomro is one of the many philanthropists in Rawalpindi who arranges free ‘Iftar Sherbat’ and meals for more than 500 people daily in Liaquat Bagh area.
They are our brothers. They cannot afford to buy food for ‘Iftar’. We arrange ‘Iftar’ for about five to six hundred people here every day. I make this arrangement with cooperation from some friends, he said.
I am a poor labourer said Niaz Hussain. I don’t have enough money to buy ‘Iftar’ food and break my fast at home, he said while sitting at a roadside charity ‘Iftar’.
Sometimes we leave the office very late and we have to breakfast on the way, said Mohammed Naushad who works as a clerk in a private company. For many years street ‘Iftar’ meals have been a Ramazan tradition in the twin cities because commuters are often stuck in traffic jams and fail to reach their homes in time to break their fast.