A restaurant owner who used his own savings to feed tens of thousands of Pakistan's poorest people during Ramadan has told how it was always his "dream" to help those most in need.

Muhammad Sultan travelled to his family's home city of Lahore where he freely fed 300 people every day for a month during the Muslim festival by setting up a drop-in kitchen after sundown.

The 37-year-old father-of-three, who owns the award-winning Charcoals restaurant in Glasgow, also handed out food parcels, clothing and money to struggling families.

Mr Sultan, who only reluctantly agreed to speak about his trip, said: "My family, my children, they have everything they want, we are so lucky - these families have nothing.

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"I planned to feed 100 people a day, but when I saw them, and saw the amount of people needing help, we had to increase the numbers.

"We were feeding around 300 people everyday, sometimes 500, I just couldn't turn people away.

"They were so thankful, they said they would pray for me, but I told them I didn't need anything, that I had a good life and I was just thankful that I was able to help them."

Mr Sultan was born and grew up in Dubai but his family are originally from Lahore and he still has relatives there.

He said he remembers visiting the city as a child for family occasions when he saw first hand the extreme poverty affecting people there.

The businessman moved to Scotland in 2004 when he married his wife but always wanted to return to Lahore to help those in need.

"It was my dream to go back and make a difference," he said. "I saved up to do it.

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"We made sure everyone was welcome. We set up outside in the street and made it clear it wasn't just Muslims we were helping. We wanted to help minorities as well.

"It wasn't about religion, it was about humanity. Anyone who was hungry and in need was welcome."

Mr Sultan visited struggling families to deliver food and clothing, as well as orphanages where he provided children with clothing and money.

He told of meeting one family, a widowed mother and her four children, who were struggling to survive with no food, electricity or proper clothing and shoes.

He said: "One of the children was very ill, he was only seven and had severe stomach pains but his mother couldn't afford medical care.

"I took him to a doctor and it turned out the family had been living on powdered red chillies for food and this had made him ill.

"We gave them food packages to make sure they could survive for the next few months."

The restaurateur is already planning to return and do the same again next year - hopefully on an even larger scale.

He said that when he came home and told people of what he had seen and showed them photographs, they said he should have told them about what he was doing and they would have helped out.

He has now had several offers of support to help with funding next year's trip, including from staff at his restaurant where a collection tin has been put in place.

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"Even my children are saving their pocket money now for the poor people," he said. "That is exactly what I wanted, I wanted to make them aware of just how lucky they are and how they need to try and help others who are not as fortunate.

"Now I really want to raise awareness so that more people get involved and we can try to help even more people."