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Karachi: Residents of Nazimabad, as usual, this year also brought down the animals reared on the roof with the help of a crane, which a large number of people gathered to see.
According to the correspondent Express, 50-year-old Syed Ejaz Hussain in Karachi’s Nazimabad area has been buying calves for the past 20 years a few months before Eid al-Zhaha and rearing them and preparing these animals for Saint Ibrahimi. Before the sacrifice, it is taken down from the roof with the help of a crane.
This year too, he has reared 7 calves brought from Punjab in connection with the Eid sacrifice on the roof of a four-storey building. Six months ago, he bought these animals, which are now two to two and a half years old, most of them a few days before Eid-ul-Adha. They buy sacrificial animals, but due to the rising prices of sacrificial animals, the trend of rearing calves on house roofs is also increasing.
A large number of citizens were surprised to see the cattle coming down from the roof with the help of a crane, and the children cheered and clapped after seeing these interesting scenes. All the residents, including the children and Buzrak, look forward to this annual activity.
Fifty-year-old Syed Ejaz Hussain, who rears animals on his terrace, told Express News that he has been fulfilling this hobby for the past twenty years. At present, he has seven native animals. Five calves used to be sacrificed, but in present conditions the purchasing power has been affected.
He said that he does not give any injection to these animals to fatten them, but feed them porridge and green fodder and get them vaccinated. Six months ago, he bought these seven calves, one calf a day from five. Six hundred eats, in winter we also take measures to protect them so that they don’t get sick, I have raised them like my own children and we love them very much but we don’t ignore them. It should be done that in reality this is the sacrifice.
The children in the house said that we feed and walk our animals ourselves, we try to spend as much time as possible with our animals until Eid. but we have been told by our parents that after sacrifice they go to a good place.
On this occasion, the citizens said that we have been going to the market every day for the past few days, but the prices of cattle are talking to the sky, we are forced to return empty handed. Prices are double what they were last year so we haven’t taken animals yet.
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