Summary Federal Secretary Law warned the ban is affecting Pakistan's relations with Arab countries
ISLAMAABD: (Dunya News) – Government of Pakistan has on Monday declared the ban on hunting of the houbara bustards as inapplicable. Federal Secretary Law has said that the ban is negatively affecting Pakistan’s relations with the Arab countries. Shockingly enough, he said that the ban on the hunting of the birds may force the specie to extinction, reported Dunya News.
Answering a question in Senate’s Standing Committee on Law and Justice, Secretary Law Raza Muhammad Khan said that the relations and cooperation between Pakistan and the Arab countries are being negatively affected by the ban on the hunting of houbara bustards. He told that the Arab princes are really helping the breeding of the specie and the ban on its hunting may affect the breeding.
The contract, according to Ministry of Law officials, binds the Arab princes for the breeding of 2 houbara bustrads for each bird hunted. They said that the locals will start hunting the bird without any check if the quota is removed and will thus the very existence of the specie will be threatened.
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The only houbara treatment and rehabilitation centre established by former leader of United Arab Emirates (U.A.E) Sheikh Zayyed is also badly affected by the government’s ban on its hunt.
The ban has not only irked the locals but also depressed veterinary doctors as the rehabilitation center is feared to be closed if the Arabs will not visit for hunting houbara bustard.
The centre was made in 1995 when Pakistani government welcomed its Arab counterparts to visit the country for houbara bustrad’s hunt. The Arab royals altogether made strong efforts for the breeding of the bird.
