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Unlike other Muslims who buy animals for slaughter a few days
before the sacrificial holiday, Syed Ejaz Ahmad, 55, said
raising his own calves was more economical.
Ahmad started raising calves in a rooftop shed about 15 years
ago. As they grew in size, it became difficult to lead oxen down
the narrow staircase of his house.
His solution? Call a crane service.
The operation has become an annual event in Ahmad's neighborhood
of Nazimabad, where a crowd cheered as it watched the spectacle
unfold.
"I was a bit scared when I did this for the first time," crane
operator Mohammad Hanif said this week as he swung Ahmad's seven
cows and oxen to the ground.
"When the animal's feet struggled, I thought it might break the
straps and fall on the crowd of people, particularly children,"
he said. "Now I have a lot of practice doing it."
Eid al-Adha is one of the two most important festivals of the
Islamic calendar and commemorates the willingness of Ibrahim, or
Abraham, to sacrifice his son on God's command.
Muslims mark the holiday by slaughtering animals such as sheep
and goats and sharing the meat with family and friends, as well
as donating it to the poor.
(This version of the story fixes the spelling of word "thought"
in paragraph seven)
(Reporting by Shahab Shahabuddin; Writing by Karishma Singh and
Phyllis Xu; Editing by Darren Schuettler)
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