![]() Pakistan is known for producing quality leather products as some 800 tanneries in the country prepare finished leather from cow, buffalo, sheep and goat hides. "We receive around 30-35 percent hides of our yearly demand during the Eid al-Adha," said Muhammad Ikram, secretary of the Tannery Association in Karachi.Īccording to the association's last year's report, nearly 7.3 million animals were sacrificed on Eid al-Adha in 2014, including 2.5 million cows and buffaloes, 4 million goats, 0.8 million sheep and 30,000 camels. TsarnaevĪcross the country, political parties and religious groups receive an estimated amount of 2.5 to 3 billion rupees (25.6 million euros) from the sales of hides every year. The world's 1.5 billion Muslims marked the start of Eid al-Adha, or the feast of sacrifice, on Monday Image: picture-alliance/dpa/S. From the purchase and slaughter of animals to the collection of their hides, the Eid al-Adha is a huge business in the Muslim-majority South Asian country. But the festival is also a money-generating activity. The MQM collected around 60-70 percent of total hides from the city last year.ĭuring the Eid al-Adha holiday, which marks the willingness of Abraham to sacrifice his son on God's command, the believers slaughter sheep, goats or cows and share the meat with family, friends and the needy. The MQM leaders complain that an ongoing military crackdown on its workers is hindering its political and social activities, thus for the first time in three decades its charity group "Khidmat-e-Khalq Foundation" is excluded from the Eid affairs. The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), a popular party in Pakistan's economic hub and port city Karachi, announced over the weekend that it would not collect animals' hides on this year's Eid al-Adha festival.
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