South Punjab Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) Captain (retd) Saqib Zafar sent a report to the chief minister regarding the mauling of a child by stray dogs. The report also held Lodhran District Council Chief Officer responsible for negligence.
The report states that despite instructions from the government to carry out a dog-culling campaign, the CO remained negligent. In his capacity as Multan commissioner, the ACS ordered Lodhran DC to take stern action against the CO.
He observed that negligent officials lose the right to keep their posts.
A two-and-a-half-year old child, the grandchild of Nawab Baloch, had left home at noon last Friday to visit his aunt nearby when a pack of stray dogs mauled and killed him in Chak 100-M in district Lodhran.
Another such case was reported last week in Kot Addu, where a dog owned by Tufail Chandia attacked 10-year-old Mubashir, leaving him with leg injuries.
The victim's uncle, Ilyas Chandia, a relative of Tufail, was attacked by Tufail and his men when he complained about the incident.
A 12-year-old boy was killed in February 2021 when six stray dogs had attacked him at a school in Dera Ghazi Khan.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 22nd, 2022.
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