‘Edhi received 12,000 hides this Eid’

Karachi
The Edhi Foundation received hundreds of hides from Rangers that they had seized during in their crackdown on forcible collection but most of them had decomposed and become useless by the time they were handed over, Faisal Edhi, the head of the organisation, told The News on Monday.
He added that the Edhi Foundation had received 12,000 hides of sacrificial animals in Karachi this Eid in comparison with 7,000 last year, “These hides were mostly donated by friends and sympathisers of my father, Abdul Sattar Edhi,” he added.
Asked about the market value of hides received by the foundation, he said it must be around Rs4 million and that money would be spent on charitable activities.
Abdul Sattar Edhi, the founder of the foundation, said his organisation usually received a relatively less number of hides on Eid. “Usually they are collected on the basis of caste,” he added. Abdul Sattar Edhi is undergoing treatment at the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, but maintains that he is in “good health”.