The man who can eat ‘anything’

Fifty-five-year-old Allah Wasayo is still unmarried. He complains his relatives turned down his proposals of marriage fearing that he would eat up his wife.

To be fair to them, their fears were not entirely unfounded. Mr Wasayo munches tube lights and teacups and consumes huge quantity of food with equal ease.

A Sindhi-speaking Qambrani, Mr Wasayo hails from Pingrio village in the Badin district. He worked as a labourer till the age of 30. But then his appetite got the better of him and he started to place bets with friends about the amount of food he could eat at one go…