During Ramadan, fasting families living in localities with no running water depend on the services of 'mashkis' who deliver water using goat-hide bags. The 'mashkis' supplied water to communities in Indo-Pakistan for centuries but are now a vanishing profession.

Pakistan's water bearers quench thirst in Ramadan, but fear for their trade

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