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How do you sign chicken and chips? Pakistan’s cafe run by and for the deaf

Menus in sign language and jobs for the hearing impaired are challenging discrimination against those with disabilities

It’s not just the bright yellow walls that make the Abey Khao cafe in Islamabad’s Mughal Market stand out. The menu is in sign language, as is the English alphabet painted on the walls, along with the signs for “yes”, “no”, and “thank you”. Customers are encouraged to place their orders using sign language.

The Abey Khao – which means “Hey Eat” – cafe is the believed to the only fast food cafe in Pakistan set up and run by deaf people.

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