CBC goes back on promise by shooting two sleeping dogs

Stray dogs have become a threat, says campaign leader


Our Correspondent February 20, 2016
PHOTO: FILE

KARACHI: Cantonment Board Clifton (CBC) sanitation branch shot dead two sleeping dogs in Defence Housing Authority Phase-II Extension on Saturday, nearly a year after it promised to put an end to the practice.

The rescue head of animal service provider Home Four Paw & Claw, Syed Mustafa Ahmed, said the CBC has violated the agreement for the third time in three months. According to Ahmed, the CBC is legally bound to intimate in written form about not being able to comply with the agreement.

CBC member Muhammad Jamil, who is leading the campaign to shoot stray dogs, said that residents have been complaining every day. A 25-member board meeting of CBC has rejected the agreement done between them and the animal service provider, he said.

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Home Four Paw & Claw CEO Hira Ghulam Qadir showed the carcasses of the two dogs left by CBC’s sanitation branch in a nearby dumpster. "The decomposition of the bodies will create environmental hazards for the residents," she said.

CBC spokesperson Aamir Siddiqui claimed that CBC did not shoot the dogs whereas sanitation supervisor Akhtar told The Express Tribune that they have shot the two dogs while another was missed in a four-hour-long campaign.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 21st, 2016.

COMMENTS (9)

Shamim Mujtaba | 7 years ago | Reply The best solution to this problem is with this NGO to collect all live stray dogs to some Island by ship and feed them there... The people who Love to have Dogs as pets do take care of them, but their dogs are not stray dogs. If we can go fast for having Less childten; why can't it be implemented with wild stray dogs? emphasized text Lets find the workable solutions to the problem than blaming someone or show undue temper. Thanks to everyone...stay Blessed all!
Wajiha | 8 years ago | Reply This practice to get rid of stray dogs has been going on for years. Clearly it hasn't been successful! Maybe it is time to take a look around the world and see how other big cities handled this problem. I can assure you their method was NOT to go on a shooting rampage.
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