Begging is the best profession in Karachi
Yesterday at 7 pm, I had to go to a friend's house, so I stopped at the Select shop of Askari 4 Shell Petrol Pump to buy a cake. I bought a cake and gave the five thousand rupee note to the bakery owner. He said, "Brother, give me some loose change." I didn't have any more money.
Seeing me upset, a poor man standing by the shelf pointed at me and softly said, "Take some loose change from me." I was surprised, so he took out the money from a plastic bag and put it in front of me. I asked the bakery owner who this was, and I found out that this was the beggar who begs all day in front of Millennium Mall Chowk and comes to the same bakery every evening to get big notes.
I asked this rich beggar how much money this was, he said, "Seventy-five hundred, that is, he didn't even know how to say 3700." I then asked how much time he had earned, he said, "Sir, from 7 am till now, I have received this seven-fifteen hundred." I was sorry for working all day and I had little money, so I said, "Sir, Muharram has started, so the work is less." I said, "You work very hard all day, should I take your photo?" He did not refuse. Anyway, the bakery owner took the money from him and dismissed me. I went out and took a photo of Select so that I could write something about the generosity of the people of Karachi and show all these photos.
The people of Karachi try to convince a worker to work for minimum wage, but they give seven hundred and twenty (3700) rupees to a poor man who has come from outside to earn paradise. If you have an argument with a generous person from Karachi, he will make you laugh by saying that it is a sin to return a beggar empty-handed. Indeed, now the best profession in Karachi is begging. The slogan rises from the heart: "Long live the generous man of Karachi."
Columnist Brigadier Bashir Arain (Retd)
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