The life of a rickshaw driver | Pakistani Rickshaw Driver

Every time Muhammad Kashif picks up a customer in his auto-rickshaw, a part of him prays that he has hit the tourist generosity jackpot.
“Look at Mazhar over there,” he says, as he points towards an older rickshaw driver across the road.
“Yesterday he took a French couple on a 300 rupee tour of Lahore Fort and at the end they gave him a 2,000 rupee tip.”
An estimated 7.5 million tourists stream into Lahore, capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab, Lahore every year. There, they are met by, literally, thousands of auto-rickshaw drivers just like Kashif.
With so many drivers to choose from, competition is cut-throat and profit margins thin. A trip within Lahore tourist enclave of Lahore fort costs just 300 rupees, with an hour-long tour of the town’s major sites setting tourists back less than 500Rs.
Some tourists spend 12,000 rupees every night in luxury hotels. How can they care about an extra 100 rupees?
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