Karachi: While Karachiites completely disregarded the directives of the Sindh government by sacrificing animals wherever they wished to during Eid Al Adha, residents in the most expensive and posh neighbourhood of the city were no exception, The majority of them also performed rituals wherever they wanted to.
For the first time, the Sindh government had designated 500 animal slaughter sites for the leadership of the National Command and Operations Center to consult the national strategy opposed to the coronavirus pandemic. The designation of suitable sites was the first time the government intervened in the rituals of Eid Al Adha. But officials made no effort to ensure that others complied with the law.
The scenario was the same in the Karachi Defense Housing Authority (DHA), the city’s ultimate dominance along the Clifton coastal belt, because its population also failed to respect the leadership of the municipal authority, the Clifton Quartering Board. The CBC had made arrangements to motivate DHA citizens to slaughter animals only at designated sites in a total of 18 appropriate camps in the neighborhood. Citizens were warned that this Eid Al Adha would not be allowed to slaughter animals on an individual outdoor base in their residences. If they had followed the law, it would have been less difficult for the local municipal company to do the work of waste disposal.
Being in the jurisdiction of an cantonment area, the municipal formula in a position to manage the DHA zone was much higher compared to the rest of Karachi with a suitable mechanism for the collection, progression and maintenance of the facilities, adding several parks. In return, DHA citizens must comply with the strict municipal cantonment formula, i.e. in cases similar to the structure of their homes, as in other parts of the city, unregulated residential buildings pose a serious threat to their citizens.
The DHA neighborhood contains approximately 70,000 housing complexes spread over 8 phases. As its citizens were unaware of the control of cantonment officials, fewer than 700 animals were taken to the 18 camps established in the region to slaughter animals regulatedly in the first two days of Eid Al Adha. As a result, the government had to adopt an extensive cleanup crusade in the neighborhood, as approximately 3,200 tons of animal waste was disposed of from other parts of the city.
Aziz Suharwardy, vice president of Cbc, although he recognized the scenario in which DHA citizens commonly did not comply with the cantonment instructions, claimed that the scenario was different this time, as many locals used the online animal slaughter reserve “Qurbani” (sacrifice) online service providers with the option of direct delivery of meat at home for the COVID-19 emergency.
Asad Kizilbash, who is a senior official in one of the main agreements representing the citizens of DHA, said his agreement had carried out appropriate campaigns to motivate local citizens to slaughter animals in a disciplined and regulated manner, but without profit because it did not pay attention to such a recommendation or instruction.
Meanwhile, Sindh government lawyer Murtaza Wahab said Tuesday that about 61,000 tons of animal faeces were collected and discarded throughout Karachi during the 3 days of Eid Al Adha until August 3.
Animal waste is in addition to the city’s already inefficient waste disposal system, creating a variety of municipal problems. The city’s typhoon sewers are clogged with unsupervised municipal waste. In an unprecedented move, the Border Works Organization, the Pakistani army’s leading civil engineering establishment, was called to cover the city’s strangled drains to save it from urban flooding during the monsoon season.
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