As people enter the markets for shopping, beggars start bothering them, asking for alms. They even make shopping very difficult, said a woman shopper Nasreen Akhtar at Hussain Aghai bazaar. She said that the beggars keep chasing the buyers until they give them some money to get rid of them.
She said that the departments concerned should take notice of the situation. Another shopper Muhammad Jamil at Bohar Gate bazaar said that they had become sick of beggars. "I don't know from where they pour into the city in hundreds with the advent of Ramadan. One can see a sea of beggars in different markets of the city.
We are fed up with them," he said. Muhammad Zahid, who was shopping at Cantt bazaar, said that sometimes these beggars become aggressive and one feels they would attack him. He said some of beggars were working as pick-pockets also.