Eidul Azha just round the corner, groups of children can be seen everywhere in the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi showing their love for their sacrificial animals. Children are very excited these days and they are having a great fun in walking with their animals, patting and caressing them, feeding them and adorning them with colourful leashes, reins, strings, ribbons, henna, and other little garlands. Unaware of the exorbitant prices of sacrificial animals and their parent's ordeal of buying them, children are just thrilled to have them around.
The cattle market in I-11 that the prices of animals this year are three times higher than the previous year's. Hence Eidul Azha, like Eidul Fitr can be called an event for the children since they are the ones who have the maximum fun on these holy days.
These days, they can bee seen boasting about prices, colours and physical features of their animals. These children are just not contented to have their sacrificial animal; they do everything to make them look 'beautiful' too.
"I have purchased a few garlands to decorate my goat that my father purchased spending Rs 27,000. Now, I have adorned my animal with reins of bright colours and silver ornaments for its neck and legs," said Rayan Ali, a youngster in F-6/1.
These enthusiastic children dedicatedly perform all the chores related to their animals, which include arranging for their fodder, sheltering and taking them for a walk.
Asim Raza while talking to APP said he had to wait all year for Eidul Azha, so that he could enjoy the company of his goat. "I love to take it for a walk," he said. He said that he along with his friends would take their animals for a walk, preferably to some nearby meadow twice a day.
Another kid, Qasim Shah, said he preferred to go with his parents to select the animal of his choice, suggesting it should be beautiful enough to show off.
"We friends have a sort of competition among us as to whose animal is more beautiful and healthy than others'," he said. He said it was not easy to look on when one's animal was being slaughtered. "It's really hard to sacrifice them but it has to be like that," he said.
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