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Eid makeover: The art of camel barbering
This piece was originally published on September 24, 2015.
Following our annual family tradition, this year too, we visited the cattle market to buy a sacrificial animal for Eid-ul-Azha. It was hot and humid at Asia’s biggest cattle market on the Super Highway, but meeting a camel stylist for the very first time, more than made up for it.
The market has a separate section reserved for camels, where hundreds of camel are brought every year from traders in rural Sindh.
“Buyers prefer to look for the most beautiful ones,” says Naeem, a trader and owner of camels. “We sought the services of camel barbers like Ali Hassan to give the animals a 'makeover' to appease buyers and onlookers.”