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Malik Tahseen Raza in DAWN:
MUZAFFARGARH, June 17: Cricket is often described here as a national passion but in some parts of Muzaffargarh, cockerel fight has over the years become much more than a favourite pastime, a local wrestle mania.
It is the sport at the local circuit that draws hundreds of spectators. April and May are the months when cockfight competitions are held and this season saw around two dozen of those in Baseera, Pattal, Basti Chajhra, Chowk Goudar, Mahmood Kot and Kot Addu. There were hundreds of people who witnessed the cockerels fighting, there was great enthusiasm.
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The Monday, June 11 2007, edition of Pakistan’s leading English daily newspaper DAWN has news of the Liaquatabad Town Administration killing 167 dogs in their jurisdiction in Karachi. According to the news item, the sanitation department is encouraging residents to inform them about stray dogs in their area so that they can come to eliminate them. Continue reading ‘Killing of stray dogs in Karachi’
Eye-Opening Scenes Depicting Mutilation and Abuse Deemed Too Gruesome
Islamabad - A provocative new public service announcement (PSA) which aims to educate people about the plight of Pakistan’s dancing bears has been banned by Pakistan Television Corp. In a bid to expose viewers to the horrific mutilations and abuse that dancing bears endure, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Asia-Pacific (PETA) tried to buy a spot during the network’s prime time. PTV ad executives said the video - which shows a screaming man being burned and tethered through the nose like a dancing bear - was too graphic.
Continue reading ‘Horror film about ‘Dancing Bears’ banned by Pakistan TV’
THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ACT, 1890
1ACT No. XI of 1890 (21st March 1890)
(As modified up to the 15th December, 1937)
AN ACT for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Title, extent and commencement, and super-session of other enactments
WHEREAS it is expedient to make further provision for the prevention of cruelty to animals. It is hereby enacted as follows:-
1. (1) This act may be called the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1890.
(2) This section extends to the whole of British India; and the 2(Provincial Government) may, by notification in the official Gazette, extend, on and from a date to be specified in the notification, the whole or any part of the rest of this Act to any such local area as it thinks fit. Continue reading ‘The Pakistan Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1890′
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