Strange as it may seem, but beggars in Pakistan may be earning much more than IT professionals or even management graduates.

A survey conducted by the Daily Times has revealed that beggars earn as much as 2500 rupees per day, totalling up to a staggering 75, 000 rupees a month!

The paper quoted a beggar in the city as saying that on an average, healthy beggars earn about 1,500 rupees a day and handicapped ones earn up to 2,500 rupees. But all this, he said was being run by a mafia out of the reach of law.

Children, they said were forced into begging, as they generate more sympathy from the alms giver.

“They are not afraid of anything. They just ring the doorbell and ask for alms as if it were their constitutional right. They even curse people who refuse them,” the paper quoted Natasha Malik, a Defence resident as saying.

Beggars, the report said also storm people coming out of mosque after Friday pay alms, often slyly warning them of dire consequences if they refuse.