Ads and poverty.

Byline: Dr M. Qudrat-e-Khuda - Karachi

INDUSTRIES of oil, food, beverages and spices advertise their products by showing sumptuous dinners, lunches, parties, etc. Now they have started showing Iftar too. This they do to boost sales of their products.

I suggest to the TV channels to also show how a lower middle-class family and the poor break their fast, have their dinner after Iftar and other meals. This will make, apart from the government, the rich know more about the sufferings of people and they will increase financial assistance to the underprivileged.

Poverty is on the rise in our country. I have come to know that people eat bread dipping it in water that too contaminated. I think diseases such as marasmus and kwashiorkor might...