(Photo: Express) 70-year-old Mubeen Ahmed living in Bilqis Edhi Old Home
Lahore: Father’s Day is being celebrated on June 18 across the world including Pakistan, the purpose of celebrating this day is to highlight the greatness of the father.
This day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June every year around the world to acknowledge that the father is an irreplaceable shade tree, on this occasion children show their love to their father by giving gifts. .
A father sacrifices everything for the happiness of his children, but sometimes the children reward these sacrifices in such a way that the father is forced to stumble.
On Father’s Day, the elderly living in Lahore’s Edhi Home also hope that their children will visit them on that day or someone will express their love by saying Happy Father’s Day on the phone.
In various old age homes including Bilqis Edhi Home of Lahore, there are many elderly people who are spending their days here after suffering at the hands of their children.
70-year-old Mubeen Ahmed is from Karachi but he has been living in Bilqis Edhi Home in Lahore for the past several years. But today they have become a burden for the children.
Talking to Express News, Mubeen Ahmed said that his parents migrated from India to Lahore in 1947, later they moved to Karachi, they worked in Karachi University, they have two sons and three daughters, they also went to work abroad but On the wish of his eldest son, he left his job and came back.
Mubeen Ahmed said that his relationship with his wife had become strained, once the court reconciled, but the wife left again and turned the children against me, the children fraudulently transferred all the property and plots to their names and left me at home. Forced to leave.
He further told that when he was in Karachi, his daughters used to visit him sometimes, but he had not met his sons for many years. Mubeen Ahmed, with teary eyes and a hoarse voice, told that now Tuan’s children have also got married, the eldest son is 40 years old. But it is a pity that he could not participate in the marriage of the children.
He said that he loved his eldest son the most and left his job abroad for him and came back but this son also did not support him. Now I am spending the remaining days of my life. What my children have done to me may happen to them tomorrow, but I am a father, so I cannot forgive my children.
In Bilqis Edhi Home, like Mubeen Ahmed, there are a few more elderly people whose children have abandoned them in their old age and now the workers of Edhi Foundation are engaged in serving them. There are many people whose sons kicked them out of the house at the request of their wives.
Zameer Ahmed said that we try to give good food to these elderly people and take care of their health. Try to treat so that these people can be happy.
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