Eid-ul-Azha Festivities and Unpleasant Happenings - A Dilemma
(Salman Ali Zar Muhammad, Karachi)
Respected Sir,
Through the courtesy of your widely circulated newspaper, I would like to draw
the attention of the concerned authorities towards the unpleasant happenings
after Eid-ul-Azha.
Karachi consists of a number of well known institutions, universities, colleges
which indicates the number of learned people that this city consists of but
regardless of this fact, the cultured people are performing some incorrect
actions that are presenting them as ignorant.
Every year we Muslims perform a religious ritual i.e. performing ‘Qurbani’ which
is a tradition, in which we have to sacrifice our most beloved thing so we
people sacrifice an animal. This ritual is performed every year but there are
some issues that need to be addressed.
Firstly, the place where animals are kept by their sales persons is not
maintained properly, it is unhygienic for a common man and because of it the
buyers and the animals get ill. Secondly, after Eid people throw away the
unusable parts of their animals i.e. offal on streets which makes the street
animals i.e. cats and dogs come and eat it and this way the environment gets
dirtier and roads are left with no space to walk. Lastly, due to the throwing of
wasted parts on streets, keeping water for animals in buckets and not looking
after it for days many diseases are becoming prevalent which are dengue,
malaria.
Our provincial government makes committees which collect and dump all the offal
parts of animals, which is a very good practice that should be continued but
there should be much more cleanliness during the period of buying and selling of
animals as the citizens have to face the side effects of it even after eid.
You are therefore requested to draw the attention of the concerned authorities
and also the people who are reading this article because it is the people of the
society that make it good or bad. We should all be responsible citizens’ inorder
to provide ourselves with a clean environment to live in.
Yours faithfully,
SALMAN ALI ZAR MUHAMMAD