11-08-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com

No money, no sheep: lockdown hampers Eid in Kashmir

Tradition dictates that Muslims slaughter a sheep during Monday's Eid al-Adha festival, and despite the military lockdown in Kashmir's main city Srinagar, Bashir Ahmad was determined to respect the custom.Muslim-majority Kashmir is set to celebrate Eid al-Adha on Monday, exactly a week after India's Hindu nationalist government scrapped the restive region's special autonomy status and imposed a curfew.Locals mark Eid by buying tens of thousands of sheep and goats to kill in an annual ritual that
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