Fasting in hot and sizzling summer is really very tough. I hardly see any of the people who work in the open in hot sun and humid wind, ever fasting. Even people working in the offices avoid fasting.
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I spent the ramadan of 2004 in London. I never felt if was fasting over there. But who can dare to fast on a June day in Karachi? Yesterday it was very very hot here.
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When I started keeping fast the first time in life, it were during May-June months... it used to feel a day too long...
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Were you working the construction of a road then here in Pakistan?
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My experience has been otherwise. During my job on the construction of motorway, I have seen in Pak most ( alomost all) workers working in hot sun do fast. Those in the office also fast.
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And it will be back in June after 36 years.
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It started on May 8 in 1986.
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The first time in life means I was a kid - that too a school going 
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It will again be in May in 2020.
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But if you were working on roads then, would you have dared to fast?
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Ramadan takes 6 years to pass a solar month - first three years in head and later three years in tail.
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The longest roza in Pakistan on a summer day is in Gilgit and the shortest roza on the same day in Pakistan is in Badin.
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Sialkot is the first major city in Pakistan to undo fast and Gawadar is the last.
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But if you were working on roads then, would you have dared to fast?
No one among us can dare to do so in such conditions, only if Allah bless us with the strength and patience. (But we must also make our sincere efforts)
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My experience has been otherwise. During my job on the construction of motorway, I have seen in Pak most ( alomost all) workers working in hot sun do fast. Those in the office also fast.
Which part of Pakistan did you live? I had been through all Sindh during Ramadan and I always saw resturants open there.
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Indeed it was Zia's Ahtram-e-Ramadan ordinance which forced people to shut food business during Ramadan. Before his rule - all the foods shops and resturants used to remain open (with a purdah then).
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I think Roza is only for rich and the middle class.
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And at the same time, it is the month of low production and high expenditure in Pakistan as working hours are drastically cut. And I think this cut is against the spirit of roza.
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Which part of Pakistan did you live? I had been through all Sindh during Ramadan and I always saw resturants open there.
I did job in the area of Attock, burhan & sawabi side ofr construction of motor way from Islamabad to peshawar
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My experience has been otherwise. During my job on the construction of motorway, I have seen in Pak most ( alomost all) workers working in hot sun do fast. Those in the office also fast.
Let me correct you, if you are mentioning the motorway between Lahore and Islamabad. That was constructed during 1995-1999 and Ramadan were then in Feb to Dec then.