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Australian High Commissioner requests Pakistan to immediately stop culling sheep
Australia says blood samples of sheep should be tested in international laboratories.
KARACHI: The Australian High Commissioner requested Pakistan on Wednesday to immediately halt culling imported sheep as they were perfectly fine in health.
Australia has also demanded that the blood samples of the sheep be sent to international laboratories for tests so it can be made sure that the sheep are not ill.
On Tuesday, the Sindh High Court had stayed the culling of the thousands of sheep imported from Australia and constituted a committee headed by Secretary Sindh Livestock Department to collect fresh samples from the animals.
The order was given on a petition filed by the importer who claimed that the Islamabad-based Research and Safety Laboratory had declared the sheep as ‘clean of any disease’, and contended that the government authorities collected samples of sheep without permission.
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make the “High Commissioner” eat that meat first!!Recommend
The sheep are fine, local politicians are hoarding local animals for Eid and this represents a loss for them. Simple explanation, let science do the talking.
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The party importing the sheep is notorious and they had tried to import pigs like sheep into Pakistan some ten years ago. Australian High Commissioner must take this consignment back home for the consumption of Australian citizens.
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@Sonya:
If they are sheep then it doesn’t matter if they look like pigs tom or jerry or a cat. Do you mind to provide a link to such event ever happening or was it something you just heard and believed upon.
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its all a game of commissions and kickbacks. The corrupt government can kill people for this, why would thousands of sheep matter!
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Oh no it’s a huge conspiracy. They are all out to kill us. Why not wait for the test results before jumping to conclusions?Recommend
@Sonya lol
@Khan lmaoRecommend
@abdussamad:
No, they love you…….do you love them?
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Now Australia will make it an ego problem.
Whereas, the importer who was to get profit in billions will never let these sheep get destroyed, even if it destroys health of millions of his country-fellows.Recommend
@Sonya:
@Khan:
Vienna,September 20,2012
What pigs? They are cash the skins are enough. For cadaver
eaters does it matter? My great great great grand fathers ate
roasted ham of the rhinos when beef,goats and sheep were not
in abundance.That was more than 2500 years ago.Since social
mobility of civilization has made us grass eaters mind you ! Now
we are concerned grass too have lives.That is the secret of the
movement to protect environment.
Taravadu Taranga Trust for Media Monitoring TTTMM India
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