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Read Full Story at: https://gn24.ae/814f77021a47000  More Family Iftar stories here: https://gulfnews.com/uae/ramadan More videos here: https://gulfnews.com/videos    Ramadan is a very special time in the UAE and we take a closer look at what it means to a Pakistani family living in the region.   #RamadanUAE #Iftar #Pakistan

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00:00Since it's, you know, iftar is the time where you break your fast, so the trend has been

00:12that you will put in a lot of food which is, you know, which has more carbs or energy,

00:20lots of water and lots of, you know, tailor-made drinks for the iftar that can really hydrate

00:26you.

00:27The main difference is the real iftar, what we say is kind of snacks, right?

00:33So it's based on like pakoras, samosas, are traditional snacks, right?

00:39So this kind of evolved as a tradition that we will have these things as iftar and then

00:45after that people also have dinner, right?

00:48It's a choice, but most of the people have the snack or iftar alongside dinner, together,

00:57or sometimes people have iftar, they wait for a few hours and then they have the dinner

01:03at their regular time around 9 o'clock or 8 o'clock.

01:07This iftar was booked for three weeks in advance, usually Ramadan is very busy over here, I

01:15mean, we didn't get a chance.

01:17They start getting booked like three weeks even before the Ramadan date is announced.

01:22So we were a bit late, we didn't get any iftar spots.

01:26We actually got eat-day breakfast, we were trying to invent stuff now to just get everybody

01:31else together.

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