With only a day left before Eidul Azha, blacksmiths and knife sharpeners are working busy days in the Capital.
As butchers are attracting a number of customers with the display of knives with decorated handles and sharp-edged instruments, special machines have been installed at various shops to sharpen knives, axes, beef cutters, knives and meat cleavers. The sale of barbeque instruments has also picked up.
Per reports, the sale of butchers’ appliances including knives, cutters, stand blades and ovens has recorded an increase ahead of Eidul Azha and even those selling other items in different bazars have set also set up stalls of knives and sharpening machines to take advantage of occasion.
Ordinary shopkeepers as well as professional blacksmiths belonging to far flung area and suburbs have rushed to sell these tools in different areas of Tarnol, G-13, I-10 Markaz, Aabpara, Melody, Bhara Kahu, Rawat busy localities.
Talat Abbasi, a blacksmith in Aabpara, who was hammering on a burnt iron sheet to make a sharp knife, said, “We have got a contract to deliver 10 iron sheets and 20 different kinds of knives from a butcher house at Bhara Kahu ahead of Eid.”
“Before Eidul Azha, we have a very busy and hectic schedule, whereas we have a lot less work for the rest of the year,” he said.
Another blacksmith Rauf Ahmad said that in this season he has high sale and saves over Rs 2,000 per day.
Another stall owner Noman Khan, said that these were “exceptional days” for them and they can do “full business”.
Similarly, vendors were seen roaming on bicycles to sell tools for sacrifice, besides offering services to sharpen rusted slaughter equipment.
They said that if a special “Sasta Bazar” was made available to them, then they could have offered a handsome discount to the customers.
They demanded that the authorities arrange special Sasta Bazaar as there is a huge demand of slaughtering knives and cutters ahead of Eidul Azha.
