Tag Archives: Animal Welfare

Sentient Beings

All creatures on earth are sentient beings. There is not an animal on earth, nor a bird that flies on its wings – but they are communities like you. The Quran 6:38 Swiss animal rights lawyer, Antoine Goetschel, recently made … Continue reading

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Taking things into their own paws

Mekayl Mashhadi Ahmed in The Express Tribune: Karachi: In a city rife with political violence and terrorism, animal welfare often takes a backseat. But six years ago, Mahera Omar and Maheen Zia decided to take things into their own hands, … Continue reading

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Helping animals in Pakistan

Guest post by Syed Rizvi, President and Founder, Engineers and Scientists for Animal Rights, San Jose, CA The mentality that conveys the message that we should help humans before we help animals is the same mentality among some who say … Continue reading

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Concept of animal welfare non-existent in Pakistani society

Andaleeb Rizvi in Daily Times: KARACHI: Talking about animals, one must be used to the spectacle of undernourished donkeys, horses and camels as well as flea-infested cats and dogs in the city. Also worth mentioning are the illegal animal markets, … Continue reading

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Irfan Husain’s article in DAWN about animal welfare in Pakistan.

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The state of our civilisation

Cowasjee in DAWN: Full marks to Faiza Ilyas and to the Metropolitan section of Dawn for printing as its lead story on Dec 15 the most depressing and sad tale of the leopard transferred earlier this month from the Safari … Continue reading

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Adil Najam on the spirit of animal sacrifice.

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World Animal Day celebrated in Karachi

From The News: To raise awareness of sufferings in working animals and recognising their services, the Brooke in collaboration with Richmond Crawford Veterinary Hospital, Karachi, organized two events to celebrate World animal Day 2008 on Thursday. More here.

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World Animal Day celebrations in Karachi

The Brooke is the largest animal welfare organization in Pakistan. They are celebrating World Animal Day this year in Karachi on Thursday, October 23rd at the Richmond Crawford Government Veterinary Hospital on MA Jinnah Road.

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Dwindling victoria carts

There’s a letter by Syed Rizvi in today’s DAWN about dwindling victoria carts, in response to another letter published a few days ago. He writes: APROPOS of the letter, ‘Dwindling victoria carts‘ (Sept 8), writer Seema Khanum Pashamby lamented the … Continue reading

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