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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Zofeen Ebrahim in Tando Allahyar

‘For the first time, I felt free’: Pakistan’s women-led livestock market

A smiling woman holding a goat at a market in Pakistan
Rozina Ghulam Mustafa sells her goats for the first time at the women-led Marui livestock market in Sindh, Pakistan. Photograph: Khaula Jamil/The Guardian

On Saturday, Rozina Ghulam Mustafa arrived at the market in Tando Allahyar city, Pakistan’s Sindh province, to sell the goats she had raised, milked and fed.

Usually her brother sells the animals, but he sold them too cheaply because he didn’t know their true value. “He has always sold our goats at a much lower price,” she says, standing inside an enclosure with 15 of them.

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