My Profession Is My Proud

Profile: Mahmood alies Laghari

By Aisha

To get popularity is desire of every person in this world, but everybody cannot achieve it, for this a person has to work hard then it can be achieved.

Among such people Mahmood alies Laghari is one who’s profession is netting cot and making rilli. He is very famous for his profession and he is proud of it.

He lives in Latifabad 10 at Hyderabad. He is not educated, he does not know his proper date of birth but he said that after five years of independence of Pakistan his family migrated from India to Pakistan.

That time was too much difficult when they came in Pakistan but he never lost hope and worked hard and got settlement in Pakistan.

He learned these skills from his father and mother. His father was expert in netting cot and his mother was expert in making rilli, but today he is expert in both skills.

Though he has not a particular shop for business yet people know him by his name as Laghari Charpai Wala and use to come to him for cots and rillis and pay him his proper charges.

He gets 300 per Cot and 400 per Rilli, he is not earning too much from this profession but still he very much happy with his profession and he has never thought to do a different job because this is the profession of his forefathers and he considered it as a blessing of God. It has become his identity and it has made him popular.

People like his simplicity and his interest in his work, so people respect him a lot and come all the way from many different areas of city.

He does this job as a serving and devotion to human beings, so that he is very proud of this profession.