Bagri women exhibit empowerment by selling animals on Eid-ul-Azha
Bagri tribe resides in upper Sindh in the areas of Shikarpur, Sukkur and Khairpur.
KARACHI (Dunya News) – Women of Bagri tribe every year come to Karachi to sell sacrificial animal and to exhibit the women empowerment by showing that even a woman in Pakistan knows how to respectfully earn her living with hard work.
Not just the educated elite class but even the women of rural areas are making both ends meet with putting in their effort with whatever they do and proving them to be stronger than many whereas such example is of Bagri women who every year travel from Downtown Sindh to Karachi to sell their animals on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha.
Indigenous women from Sindh expressed that raising livestock is not an easy task and then bringing them to Karachi, taking care of their health and then selling them to the customers are endeavoring.
On the other hand, these women also complained that the animal market’s administration does not cooperate with them and sometimes police in the city bother them and often take away their animals which worth millions of rupees and their hard work.
Bagri – a tribe which resides mostly in upper Sindh in the areas of Shikarpur, Sukkur and Khairpur. The people of this tribe have been living in Sindh since many centuries. The Bagri tribe is living as nomadic cattle herder, constructing makeshift homes on fields of landlords – where they work tirelessly on the land, involved with sowing of crops, reported by the Sindh Times.
