Ramazan charity helps Pakistan's poor Philanthropists, charities provide rations to less fortunate during holy month A volunteer carries food trays for others before breaking fast at Memon Mosque in Karachi. PHOTO: REUTERS KARACHI: Despite a surge in coronavirus cases and rising inflation, grocery stores and supermarkets in Karachi are overcrowded with customers ahead of the holy month of Ramazan. Neatly wrapped packets and boxes of lentils, flour, rice, cooking oil, tea, spices, beverages, and other food items are arranged in shelves at a sprawling supermarket in the city's eastern district. Citizens are buying more than the usual not only to cope with the extra consumption, but to distribute among the less fortunate, or those who have been unemployed due to an economic slowdown aided by the Covid-19 pandemic.