Sacrificial animals start arriving in Punjab Metropolis
Pakistan Times National News Desk

LAHORE: Sacrificial animals have started arriving from different parts of the country to attract the faithful in the provincial capital on the eve of Eid-ul-Azha.

Contrary to previous tradition, this year ratio of big animals like cows and Buffaloes is higher than the small ones like goats and sheep, animal sellers Khuda Bukhsh, Naseer, Juma Khan and others said at Bakar Mandi here on Sunday.

The sellers said that their community have realized the increasing trend of customers towards big animals because of being economical one as compared to small animals, that is why they have increased their supply.

Talking about the problems they faced in bringing herds of animals in the city, the sellers said that higher transportation charges had placed them in a state of embarrassment.

Sale of Animals

To a question they said that sale of animals have not picked up so far therefore they cannot estimate whether the prices of animals will cross previous year’s limits this time or not.

“We are selling one or two animals daily to meet our day to day expenditures therefore at this stage it is hard to judge, that prices of animals are sky-rocketing”, Khuda Bukhsh a seller of goats arrived from Bhakkar said.

Nazim City district government Lahore Mian Amir Mahmood has said that 21 sale-points have been set up in all the six towns of Lahore and the town governments are providing facilities to sellers.●