02:43Dozens of Karachi residents gathered in the Nazimabad area of the city on Sunday, to watch six sacrificial oxen being lowered by crane from the top of a four-storey residential building to the ground, ahead of Eid al-Adha festivities.
Attending the lowering of the cattle has become a local tradition in the city of Karachi, where cattle owner Syed Ejaz Ahmad and his family raise the calves from infancy to adulthood.
" I have been doing this for more than 19 years. I bring baby cattle and then in one year they grow up. Then I sacrifice them in the name of Allah, and for that we have to get the cattle down from the roof with a crane," said Ejaz Ahmad.
During the Muslim festival Eid al-Adha, otherwise known as the 'Feast of Sacrifice,' cattle are sacrificed to honour the willingness of Prophet Ibrahim, or Abraham, to sacrifice his son Ismail on God's command.
Pakistan: Karachi residents watch as crane lifts sacrificial oxen from rooftop
Dozens of Karachi residents gathered in the Nazimabad area of the city on Sunday, to watch six sacrificial oxen being lowered by crane from the top of a four-storey residential building to the ground, ahead of Eid al-Adha festivities.
Attending the lowering of the cattle has become a local tradition in the city of Karachi, where cattle owner Syed Ejaz Ahmad and his family raise the calves from infancy to adulthood.
" I have been doing this for more than 19 years. I bring baby cattle and then in one year they grow up. Then I sacrifice them in the name of Allah, and for that we have to get the cattle down from the roof with a crane," said Ejaz Ahmad.
During the Muslim festival Eid al-Adha, otherwise known as the 'Feast of Sacrifice,' cattle are sacrificed to honour the willingness of Prophet Ibrahim, or Abraham, to sacrifice his son Ismail on God's command.
Dozens of Karachi residents gathered in the Nazimabad area of the city on Sunday, to watch six sacrificial oxen being lowered by crane from the top of a four-storey residential building to the ground, ahead of Eid al-Adha festivities.
Attending the lowering of the cattle has become a local tradition in the city of Karachi, where cattle owner Syed Ejaz Ahmad and his family raise the calves from infancy to adulthood.
" I have been doing this for more than 19 years. I bring baby cattle and then in one year they grow up. Then I sacrifice them in the name of Allah, and for that we have to get the cattle down from the roof with a crane," said Ejaz Ahmad.
During the Muslim festival Eid al-Adha, otherwise known as the 'Feast of Sacrifice,' cattle are sacrificed to honour the willingness of Prophet Ibrahim, or Abraham, to sacrifice his son Ismail on God's command.