The first-of-its-kind Bohra Food Festival began this week in Karachi, Pakistan, and according to the event’s organizer, the goal of the festival was to make Bohra food more well-known in the southern Pakistani city. Almost 35,000 members of the Shiite Islam sect known as Dawoodi Bohra live in Pakistan. The Al-Dai Al-Mutlaq, a spiritual and temporal leader, is in charge of the Bohras.
Bohras make up roughly one million individuals worldwide. Bohras have a distinctive communal eating arrangement where they sit around a thaal in groups of eight or more. All the major Dawoodi Bohra groups in Karachi got together to host the first-ever Bohra Food Festival in order to promote both this culture and Bohra cuisine.
The festival, which is now taking place from February 24 to February 26 at the North Walk Mall in Karachi’s North Nazimabad, seeks to give residents of Karachi, a prominent South Asian food destination, a distinctive gastronomic experience by examining the Bohra cuisine and culture. “Not just in Pakistan, but all around the world, it’s happening for the first time.
At the Bohra Food Festival, we’re happy to have Karachi residents join us, said Huzaifa Shabbir, one of the event’s organizers. “We have made an effort to offer the widest selection of authentic Bohra cuisine possible here. The justification for the entire situation is that small business owners that operate from their homes benefit the most.
