Sacrificial Animals’ Decor Business Booms in Twin Cities

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Islamabad: As the religious festival is drawing near, the sale of sacrificial animals and decorative items get momentum in the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi.

Taking advantage of children’s love for decorating their sacrificial animals, majority makeshift road vendors have been displaying a wide-range of decorating ornaments and fodder for sacrificial animals in various localities of twin cities.

The sacrificial animals are being found everywhere now. The children are competing to decorate their sacrificial animals with anklets and garlands made of colourful items enhancing their charm and beauty.

Decorating the sacrificial animals with different ornamental items has been a popular trend amongst the people, especially the youth since long.

Traditional decorative items stalls were set up in different markets and roadsides in the capital to attract people, particularly children. The prices of anklets, bells and facial ornaments ranged between Rs200 to Rs500.

A stall owner at G-7 Markaz said the demand for the animals’ ornaments have increased as the religious festival approaches fast. He said that there was high demand for colourful garlands, crowns and ‘payals’ for cows.

“Youngsters, particularly children, are more interested in buying decorative items as they want to adorn their sacrificial animals with the ornaments,” said Muhammad Irfan, a resident of Lal Kurti Rawalpindi.

Muhammad Tahir, another resident, said that there was popular demand of the children to buy decorative items for sacrificial animals.

He claimed that the stall owners have increased the prices of animals’ ornaments due to their high demand.

“Many roads were seen full of life as craftsmen selling decorative items at their makeshift stalls for sacrificial animals”, said Muhammad Ali, a resident of Islamabad.

Children became more excited and dragged their parents here to buy decorative items to adorn their new friends with sporting glowing colours like yellow, red and electric blue, said a pedestrian, a vendor at Commercial market informed.

The ornaments that were displayed on roads included garland, tikka, jhanjhanr, ghungroo, and metallic bands ranging between Rs300 to 700.

Customers are visiting our stalls to buy decorative items for their animals, people show keen interest in buying decorative items these days, which gives them good business, said a vendor, Saddar.”

On the other hand, a customer complained that the vendors had increased prices of such items ahead of Eidul Azha with its high demand and they knew the fact that parents were usually forced by their children for such useless expenses.

Echoing a similar view, a citizen also commented that like cattle traders in markets, road vendors selling animal fodder and ornaments were also demanding exorbitantly high prices that made it difficult for common citizens to fulfill the wish of their children.