Unauthorized cattle markets in urban areas.

(Nabeela Waheed, Islamabad)

There is a mass movement of cattle from rural areas to urban centers due Eidul Azha, the second largest religious festival for the Muslims and cattle markets in the urban areas have gained momentum with numerous buyers and hundreds of sacrificial animals. Small herds of goats and cows can be seen all over the city, being fed and sold from narrow platforms and roadsides. Seeing the increasing number of such ‘markets’ at different junctions in the city, mostly people have set up illegal markets .beside all other dangerous effects on human health it can be make a cause of the traffic jams and sanitation problems. People visit on these smaller stalls because they are lot cheaper than legal big markets but they do not worry how it can be effect on human health and also it brings the risk of unhealthy animals that may not be fit for slaughtering and worse, might be carrying various diseases such as the Congo virus and smelly air because of the market. It also becomes difficult to keep the children away from the animals as they are an unusual sight. City development authority and police should play active role to established and ensured that all stalls and markets should outside the residential zones to maintain sanitation , hygiene as well as security and avoid all others hazard to public health and danger to human life and property.
 

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