The residents of the metropolis created a new record of visiting Karachi Zoo and Safari Park when the two recreational facilities registered the entry of over 450,000 people during the last week. The people, especially children and women, expressed great interest in the newly inducted captives, including the pair of white lion which had been imported from South Africa and kept in an especially build acrylic glass enclosure for providing a new and unique experience of watching `king of jungle’ to the visitors. A Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) statement on Saturday said that besides the recently arrived Bengal tiger and pair of Puma also attracted people who expressed their pleasure while seeing the big cats. It said that according to statistics around 70,000 visitors registered daily at Karachi Zoo and Safari Park during the last week. The citizens also expressed huge interest in the restored facilities of boating and Mumtaz Mahal while the famous Mughal Garden also attracted large number of visitors.
