ISLAMABAD: The sale of slaughtering and cooking equipments is witnessing unprecedented surge in the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi in the wake of forthcoming Eid-ul-Azha.
The people started preparation for the Eid-ul-Azha, particularly people are buying crockery, knives and sharpening old knives in full swing.
Blacksmith workshops are overworked in various markets of the twin cities.
Hundreds of knives of all shapes and sizes lie next to them on the floor.
Every Blacksmith expects to sharpen between 2,000 to 4,000 different knives in the last week before the event.
The street vendors are witnessed to sell the variety of slaughter tools and also offering their services to sharpen the rusted slaughter equipment.
Some of the vendors are visiting various streets with knives sharpening equipments.
Suhail Ahmed, a mobile Blacksmith said that this is the time of year when "we make good money", adding that "I worked on 200 knives daily and this number may increase to about 800 later on".
Meanwhile, the sale of slaughtering and cooking instruments are witnessing unprecedented surge in the twin cities.
A number of stalls are being established in different markets and localities for sale of knives and steel bars.
A shopper said that street vendors and stallholders charging double price of butchery equipments, adding to hold the services of butchers was another difficult task.
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