A small car stops at a petrol pump near Mazar-e-Quaid. Its back seat is heaped with small boxes containing eatables and bottled water. A girl comes out of the car and hands some half a dozen iftari boxes to one of the petrol pump workers and the car then moves to another nearest petrol pump.
This is the spirit of generous Karachiites who silently distribute iftari boxes amongst workers of petrol pumps, vendors, pedestrians, traffic cops and bikers. Almost one hour before iftar, these generous people load the iftari boxes in the vehicles and patrol different busy roads and streets and offer iftar food and water bottles to workers and commuters.
If you are a commuter anywhere in the city and it is iftar time, you would surely get some food as the prayer call of Maghrib is announced. In fact hosting these street iftars has become a tradition of Karachiites.
Besides these goodhearted fellows, traders, religious leaders and philanthropists arrange hundreds of roadside iftar stalls in almost all areas of the city. Moreover, every mosque of the city has its own arrangements for offering iftar to the nimazis.
Though people of other cities and towns of Pakistan are very hospitable and generous, there is no match of the generosity of Karachi when comes to distributing iftar on roads and streets, commented a man waiting in a long row before a petrol pump to get fuel for his vehicle.
