American bags season’s first markhor in Chitral

The first Markhor of this season was hunted in Chitral. An American hunter hunted a nine-year-old Markhor with 45-inch antlers.

9-year-old Markhor was the first victim of the year, hunted down in Shasha Conservancy, a village on the outskirts of Chitral city, with antlers measuring 45 inches tall.

According to the Wildlife Department of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the American citizen hunted the trophy of Kashmir Markhor in Chitral, for which he had obtained a permit from the Wildlife Department of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

American hunter Klimper Todd Kevin had obtained a permit from the Wildlife Department of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for one hundred and five thousand US dollars (two million forty-five hundred seventy thousand Pakistani rupees) for this trophy hunting.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 17^th, 2022.