Lying Your Way Through Ramadan

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Snacking between meals is often discouraged, but during the holy month of Ramadan, anecdotes abound of citizens being reprimanded, shamed, fined and even jailed by the enforcers of strict legal requirements that all Muslims fast during daylight hours.

But as the old saying goes, you can’t legislate morality. Throughout the Muslim world, there is an underground of people who either choose not to or are unable to follow the strict religious injunction to not eat or drink — or let anything enter their bodies between sunrise and sunset.

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