KARACHI: Ahead of Eidul Azha, resolution seeking security for traders and citizens, visiting cattle markets in Karachi, has been tabled in Sindh Assembly. People in large numbers get together few weeks before Eidul Azha to visit cattle markets set up in different parts of city annually to buy sacrificial animals.

MQM-P lawmakers Shariq Jamal and Faheem Patni tabled resolution in Sindh Assembly, condemning violence that took place at cattle market last year. This resolution highlighted ongoing concerns about law and order in city and need for effective measures to ensure public safety. It pointed out that several citizens were looted and some were even killed during incidents.

Lawmakers demanded establishment of Task Force to ensure security of citizens visiting cattle markets. “Task Force should be deployed both inside and outside market to maintain constant vigilance,” it said, noting that government should take concrete steps to prevent such incidents in future.  Every year, Karachi cattle market, or maweshi mandi said to be biggest market of sacrificial animals in metropolis, had been set up few kilometres away from Sohrab Goth along Superhighway, but last year its location was changed to Northern Bypass.

Last year, several customers and traders returning from cattle market become victims of snatching at gunpoint due to poor security measures.

Published in The Daily National Courier, May, 01 2024

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