SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
Every year around this time the cities of Pakistan go through a bizarre transformation. The streets which were full of all sorts of animals – goats, sheep, lambs, cows, camels, and more recently yaks, are now strangely empty. The cacophony of different sounds has been silenced as if a giant spaceship full of green men...
RUN GOAT RUN
As readers are going through this piece on Wednesday morning, the doorbell will be ringing almost continuously with neighbors and family sending blood-dripping trays of freshly dead choice meats. I hope readers take a moment from the meat orgy to actually ponder the whole concept of sacrifice in Islam and the principle behind sacrificing animals...
THE GREAT BAKRA GENOCIDE
According to a press release by the Punjab Government 1 million “animals” were slaughtered in Lahore over Bakra Eid and 20,000 tons of animal waste was picked up by the city’s sanitation workers. No such numbers are available for Karachi but given the fact that Karachi has a population double that of Lahore, it would...
