Capital Gears Up For Eid Celebrations

Capital gears up for Eid celebrations

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 23rd Jun, 2017 ) : Only few days are left for celebrating `Eid-ul-Fitr', the city has woren festive look with decorated market and colorful stalls to mark the occasion.

The celebration starts with offering Namaz. It is notable that festival of Eid-ul-Fitr marks culmination of holy Ramazan with bliss and delight. Markets were flooded up with the lucrative items and special food stuff.

A large number of middle class people thronged in different market of Islamabad include G-9 Markaz Aabpara Market, Super Market and Jinnah Supper Market for the shopping for the festival while upper class prefer to go to the big shopping malls.

A number of shopping stores in the market are decked up with clothes, delicacies, decoration item and other essential articles. Although branded perfumes are available at shops, celebrators prefer to go for traditional ointment.

City malls also welcomed the festival with lucrative offers and coupons to attract the customers. "Although prices are high but we cannot miss this moment and want to enjoy the festival at full," said Farwa Hassan a shopper at G-9 Markaz.

She further said that she had purchased clothes for family members especially for the children at her home and also the sweets and eatables. Sale of vermicelli, sweets and dry fruits has gone up in the market by 50 per cent.date palms, boondi, vermicelli, fruits, sweets were also in high demand and available in each market of the city.

Especially Aabpara Market, G-9 Markaz, Super Market was really having the shine of the festival and were decked up with all the stuff marking the festival from clothes to food stuff etc. The Eid-ul-Fitr celebration starts from early morning, everyone from the community visits their relatives, greets each other and serves delicious food.

"I never forget to visit graveyard as my parents passed away recently" as the Eid prayer ends first of all I go to the graveyard, Ahmed a local shopper in the Aabpara market said. People dress in their best uniforms and wish for peace and prosperity of everyone. Devotees on this day wear their best clothes and offer `Namaz' at mosques.