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SHOTLIST 1. Mid of vendor and cow at Lahore's livestock market 2. Close of banner reading (Urdu) 'new goat market' 3. Wide of customers arriving at market 4. Various of livestock and customers 5. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq, customer: "I've been coming to the market for the past four days. The prices of goats and larger animals have increased by 25-30 percent since last year. The price of smaller animals is high too. If seven people share their money to buy a big animal, that is affordable. But the smaller animals, which cost 20-thousand rupees last year, well, vendors are asking 35-thousand rupees this year. So you can see that prices are up." 6. Mid of vendor giving grass to goats 7. Various of goats eating 8. Mid of people choosing a goat 9. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Numan Ahmed, livestock vendor: "Due to the floods, a lot of animals were killed and that's why there's a shortage of animals this year. Customers want to buy at low prices, but we have already paid a higher price ourselves to the big vendors, because of the animals killed in the flood water. This year customers are buying less, they want to pay cheap prices but the animals are expensive." 10. Close of vendor showing goat's teeth to customer 11. Mid of customer paying, UPSOUND: customer: "Keep this money" vendor "Give me more, more" 12. Wide of vendors tending to goats 13. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Zafar Hayat, customer: "The vendors are asking prices we can't afford to pay. In this situation we ask for a cheaper price, but we might not get it. If they ask a reasonable price, they might make a sale. In this market, there are many goats but few customers. I'm hoping that if the situation remains like this, the vendors will lower their prices in the last few days." 14. Top shot of customers walking with animals 15. Various of livestock market STORYLINE Livestock prices have almost doubled in Pakistan since the floods earlier this year, bringing unwelcome news for the millions of Pakistani Muslims preparing to celebrate the upcoming religious festival of Eid. The festival - due to begin on Wednesday in Pakistan - marks Ibrahim's willingness to sacrifice his own son Ismail as an act of obedience to God. At the last minute, God intervened, and gave Ibrahim a ram to sacrifice instead. Traditionally, Muslims sacrifice an animal at Eid and share the meat with their families, neighbours, and people less fortunate than themselves. At a livestock market in Lahore, customers are shopping for goats, sheep or cows to ritually slaughter this week. But the prices of livestock this year are higher than before, due to devastating floods which swept across much of Pakistan in August and September, killing many animal herds. People are searching for a bargain as Eid approaches. "I've been coming to the market for the past four days" Muhammad Zia-al-Huq told AP Television. "The prices of goats and larger animals have increased by 25-30 percent since last year," he added. Muhammad noted that an animal which cost 20-thousand rupees (240 US dollars) last year can fetch as much as 35-thousand rupees (415 US dollars) this year. But one livestock seller at the market insisted that they were merely passing on the high prices they had paid for the animals. They said they are at the bottom of a chain - high costs from farmers are simply passed along to livestock salesmen, who in turn pass them on to the customers. "Due to the floods, a lot of animals were killed and that's why there's a shortage of animals this year," said Numan Ahmed, who was trying to sell sheep and goats at the market. "Customers want to buy at low prices, but we have already paid a higher price ourselves to the big vendors, because of the animals killed in the flood water," he added. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/a92755a0f8fa0f615c21587eb0484775 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork