Aseefa Zardari, the youngest daughter of former Prime Minister Shaheed Benazir Bhutto and former President Asif Ali Zardari, took a stand against the act of culling dogs on social media.
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She condemned the poisoning of hundreds of stray dogs in Karachi carried out by the officials recently. An operation has been started citywide to cull thousands of stray dogs using poison tablets hidden in meat. The action has drawn criticism from animal rights activists, but city authorities claim it is necessary to protect residents.
Dr Seemin Jamali, the head of the emergency room stated that Karachi’s Jinnah Hospital treated 6,500 people bitten by dogs and has seen 3,700 cases so far this year.
Since Aseefa is a human and animal rights activist she frequently raises her voice against incidents of animal cruelty.
She has also in the past spoken up about Kaavan, a behaviorally-challenged elephant in Islamabad Zoo who had been kept in solitary confinement and chained around all four legs by the zoo management for years.
I am extremely angry about this ! “Hundreds of stray dogs poisoned in Pakistani city of Karachi” https://t.co/FvBqpIhgSK via @Reuters
— Aseefa B Zardari (@AseefaBZ) August 4, 2016