Beggary or Business? by Rimshah Akmal

November 27, 2020

Begging is considered a curse but in the present period, it has been now taken up as a career. People who cannot be a daily breadwinner are actually are the one’s who beg for food or money most of them happens to be homeless. In the time of Ramadan, people from all over the nation travel to Karachi specifically to make money in the holy month of Ramadan. Because of the fake beggars it becomes a real difficult task to vouch for the real needy ones who need help financially and who is professional. It doesn’t matter you are standing on the road, doing shopping or enjoying your meal in a restaurant these beggars are always there to agitate an individual. Asking is an unpredictable social annoyance and much of the time it isn’t caused by neediness; rather by human apathy. Indeed, even the individuals who are not crippled or impaired and can work and have a decent living however they want to imagine incapacitated and use camouflaging traps to sincerely misuse the general population with the goal that they can get contributions from thoughtful and blameless natives.

According to the estimate, there are somewhere twenty-five million beggars in Pakistan momentarily. Professionals has strengthened their roots in the whole country. The main reason of beggary is poverty and approx 39.9% people live in poverty in Pakistan. The beggary mafia is involved who abduct children and women and train them to beg. The main purpose of these mafias are to get sympathy from public and earn more money of pity. The brutal ways of the Beggary Mafia has no boundaries they can stoop down to any level to have you do their job for them.. Karachi The City Of Lights is considered as the backbone in the economy of Pakistan which generates about 70% of the revenue for the whole nation.

According to report one of the 100 people is directly or indirectly involved into begging. The people from different part of Pakistan occasionally come to Karachi for begging and when the season is completed they go back to their respective areas mostly occasions are Eid- ul- Fitr followed by Eid- ul-Azha. Since it has become profitable business, it is increasing day by day. The younger homeless beggars tend to get into drugs and have themselves addicted to it or most of them get associated with drug dealing which is likewise risky for the eventual fate of our nation. Nowadays the quantity of hobos has suddenly expanded in all parts of the city. No lanes, no shopping regions are as free from hobos. Indeed, even they are found in incredible number in doctor’s facilities, mosques and outside schools and so on. They possess large amounts out of every other place on earth particularly on traffic signals. Notwithstanding when one attempts to keep away from them, it is hard to escape their grasp. The culture of begging is spreading so fast that nobody thinks to stop this. It makes our society disable and directly hit the moral values of our society.

There is a law to stop begging in Pakistan According to Section 7 of the Vagrancy Act 1958; the police have power to stop begging. Section 49 of the Sindh Child Act 1955 also prohibits begging by children, and makes it a punishable act. But mafias and beggars are giving ransom to local police and with all freedom they continue their activities. As begging begins with neediness and joblessness, the administration should address the issue through training and usage of laws. It ought to guarantee the social insurance framework for poor people who are occupied with begging. Government should take an initiative and establish a training centre for the people who are associated with begging to earn a better livelihood with those skills for themselves.