Published:
October 27, 2015
KARACHI: Stop
issuing hunting permits to royal visitors from the Gulf countries and allowing
them to hunt endangered birds, such as the houbara bustard.
A
group of civil society activists, gathered under the banner of Mahol Dost
Shehri, held a protest at DHA’s Khadda Market on Monday evening where they made
these demands.
The
protesters, holding brightly coloured placards written in Urdu, English and
Arabic, demanded the federal government refrain from issuing permits to anyone
from outside Pakistan. They asked the Foreign Office to stop giving illegal
permits to kill endangered birds.
“These
are rare birds and come to Pakistan as our guests,” said a protester, Faryal.
“No one has any right to kill these birds in Pakistan,” she said, adding that
giving permits to royal visitors shows that Pakistanis are weak. “Why are some
people coming from outside Pakistan given permits?” asked a woman, who was
reluctant to share her identity. “It is a wrong policy to permit some people to
hunt birds on our land.”
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