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Category Archives: Animal Welfare
Animal welfare – a long way from home
Faiza Mirza in DAWN: “Why waste time on animal rights when humans don’t get their rights here?” is the usual response to the idea of animal welfare or animal rights in Pakistan. Meanwhile, animal lovers and activists strive to change … Continue reading
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Tagged Animal Welfare, compassion, Edhi, equines, karachi, Pakistan, richmond crawford, the brooke
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Clean-up mission: Renovation of the Karachi zoo
Report in The Express Tribune: KARACHI: The Karachi zoo will be cleaned and renovated after this Ashura, announced Shaukat Zaman, a health director, on Saturday. He had gone to inspect the zoo, along with the zoo’s director, Mazhar Khan, on … Continue reading
SOUTHASIA on Animal Rights Exclusive
Syed Rizvi in SA Global Affairs: SouthAsia has once again allocated its pages to issues of Animal Rights, with fine articles from two reputable Pakistani writers: Nilofer Ahmed and Anees Jillani. I recall that, for last year’s October issue, also … Continue reading
Islam and Animal Rights
Maneka Gandhi in SouthAsia Magazine: Cruelty to animals is strongly condemned in the Qur’an and the Hadith of the Prophet and punishments are provided for it. Most of the Sahih Hadith collections have Abdullah Ibn Umar’s report, “The Prophet cursed … Continue reading
DAWN NEWS TV covers dogs in Pakistan
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Tagged dog fighting, poisoning, stray dog management, stray-dogs
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Give Some Live Goats This Eid
Coverage of PAWS Eid Campaign in Newsline Magazine. After the devastating floods of 2010, a non-profit organisation wants Pakistanis to think a little differently for Eid-ul-Azha this year. PAWS, the Pakistan Animal Welfare Society, is asking citizens to think about … Continue reading
A life-giving sacrifice
PAWS EID Campaign 2010 “It is neither their flesh nor their blood that reaches Allah; it is your piety that reaches Him.” (Qur’an 22:37) In July and August, the Pakistan floods wiped out 1.2 million large and small animals in … Continue reading
Saving Pakistan’s Animals After the Floods
Farieha Aziz in Newsline: Just how important livestock is to the rural population can be gauged by the fact that many of the interior’s flood affectees spent their entire lives’ earnings on transporting them to safe ground along with their … Continue reading
Veterinary Relief Mission for Flood Affected Animals in Thatta and Makli
On 5th September, 2010 the Pakistan Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) makes its second relief trip to Thatta district in the southern province of Sindh. This time around we take along a truckload of fodder for the animals and three teams … Continue reading
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Tagged buffaloes, cows, flood relief, floods, goats, livestock, Makli, sindh, Thatta, veterinarian
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PAWS flood relief efforts covered by Chris Anderson, curator of TED Talks
Chris Anderson, curator of TED Talks, writes about PAWS flood relief efforts on his blog: 80% of the flood affected population relies on agriculture and animals for their livelihoods. Around 1.2 million livestock and 6 million poultry have died throughout … Continue reading