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Breaking fast with family members has its own importance and everyone wants to have Iftari at home
But there are a few people who have no option but to have Iftari away from home
We are talking about the displaced people living in the Jalozai camp
Around 150,000 people from Bara were displaced due to the ongoing operation against militants
and are living in the Jalozai camp
These displaced people have no option but to eat Sehri and Iftari in the camps
They are provided with food packages by the government which include flour, sugar, oil and rice
But they themselves buy vegetables and other food items for Iftari from nearby markets
Despite trying times, the displaced people have high spirits
They buy wood and prepare food by burning it
SYED NAWAB: Iftari at home and here are very different. At home, we would have everything
and here we don't have anything apart from the food packages provided by the government,
which is not even enough
SHAH FAROSH: We buy wood with our own money and then make food
The camps have power supply but the residents have no access to clean drinking water and gas
They also have to buy ice from the market to prepare sherbet
The government has installed water coolers to provide cold drinking water
but due to interrupted power supply and no water line, the coolers are useless
The affectees wish that peace is restored in their areas so that they can go back home and celebrate Eid there
SYED NAWAB: We don’t have cool drinking water, each family has to buy ice worth Rs100 daily
The camp residents work all day for money and come back at night
They are desperately looking for government assistance