Sacrificial animal market sites selected in Kabul

KABUL (Pajhwok): As Eid-ul-Adha draws closer, the Kabul Municipality has selected sites for the sale and purchase of sacrificial animals in the capital city.

Kabul Municipality Representative Nematullah Barakzai: “As our dear fellow citizens are aware, we are approaching Eid-ul-Adha and the Kabul Municipality has identified places for buying and selling livestock in 22 districts of Kabul city. We request all citizens to buy and sell their livestock only in these places”.

The animal market sites have been selected in

• Districts 1^st and 8^th: Behind Logar Oil Tank – Shuhada Saleheen
• Districts 2^nd, 4^th, 10^th, 11^th and 15^th: Aria township area
• District 3^rd, 6^th and 7^th: Behind Dar-ul-Aman Palace
• District 3^rd, 5^th, 13^th and 14^th: Nakhas Company
• District 8^th: Qala Barki – Behind Security Zone 8
• District 9^th: Near Pacha Bridge – Zaman Khan Fort Road
• District 16^th: Designated Special Location
• Districts 12^th, 16^th: West of Mission Crossroads – Ahmad Shah Baba Mina Project
• Districts 12^th, 16^th: Sharq Shasat-e-Matri Qala Zaman Khan – Al-Wokhil Area
• Districts 11^th, 17^th: Hada Mazar – Left Side of the Road
• Districts 19^th, 21^st: Aziz Hotak Bazaar – Pul-e-Charkhi Area
• District 20^th: Kabul-Logar Road – Sarai Malik Shir Agha (Amro Bazaar)
• District 22^nd: Bagrami Main Road – Connected to Oil Tank – Past Bagrami Bridge

Barakzai asked livestock owners to sell their animals only in these places and empathized: “Kabul Municipality survey and monitoring teams would continuously patrol these places”

He urged citizens to throw the waste left over from animal sacrifices in designated trash cans to prevent bad odors and environmental pollution.

During Eid, Kabul Municipality employees would collect and clean garbage bins every six hours, he added.

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