With the majority of citizens staying at home as a result, prayer leaders across the city delivered Friday sermons behind closed doors in largely vacant mosques. In most of them, no more than seven to 10 people joined the prayer congregation. With most staying locked inside their houses, Karachi was a deserted jungle of concrete on Friday noon. Citizens crowded shops selling groceries, vegetables, khajla, pheni, gram flour, meat, wrappers for rolls and samosas and other staple Ramazan food items. These Ramazan staples are also available at bakeries and sweet shops, in addition to roll and samosa wrappers for around Rs200 per kg.

Source: The Express Tribune April 24, 2020 11:57 UTC