Qurbani in Pakistan

Pros and Cons … please … for when you yourself do not live in Pakistan …

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My only reason is this
"The meat can be consumed by those who are able to do so once in a year."
I can relate to misery of people from a country where my roots are.

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If you know poor people in Pakistan directly then its good to help them in any way you can.

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Sending money to Edhi centre. Or ask relatives there to find a needy family.

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I know a lot of people who do their qurbani via Edhi. I believe you can do a bakra for $150 each or have one hissa in a cow for $70.

But here's my question: How is Edhi able to get this done for so cheap? My cousin in Karachi paid Rs. 150,000 for his cow.

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u make 7 hissay of cow!

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Yes, I know that a cow can be divided into 7 hissay. But Edhi is only charging roughly Rs. 6000 for 1 hissa........which equals about Rs. 42,000 for all 7 hissays. I don't think you can find a cow in Pakistan for Rs. 42,000 or even Rs. 50,000.

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Cows start from 35k and go up. A cousin bought three, a pair for 45K each and the third for 48K. We got a pair of Bakrey for 40K.

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Rs. 45K for a cow? That is a good deal.........because we were told Rs. 100K and up for a cow.

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Initial demands are considerably higher in the beginning (as much as 2 to 3 times more) but as Eid gets closer, the demands drop way down. A cow that was for 95K 2 weeks back ended up becoming as cheap as 40K 2-3 days before Eid.

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What i dont get is.... Arent u supposed to divide the meat in 3 parts? So if ppl send their money to edhi etc for bakra eid... There goes 2 divisions..family and parosi. Its only one division (the poor) that get the whole meat.

Is this ok when u DO have family tbat should be getting a hissa?

We live abroad... And send money to one family member or another and they divide the meat for us... But we make sure that proper 3 divisions are made... Sure the poor section gets more. But 3 divisions still.

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Thanks for clearing that up. It makes sense now.

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You raise a valid point. We need Aamir Liaquat on GS.

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Yeah, what about the three divisions of the meat?

Also, I'm sure as hell don't claim to read thoughts (I am pretty good at it though).
But it seems that recently, a lot of people have started going Qurbani in Pakistan because they can't afford to do it overseas.
I've actually heard people saying that.

Aapne Ghaalib Film Dekhi Hai?

We don't need Aamir Liaquat. Shush.

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:)