Tag: houbara bustards

Govt issues permits to Gulf royals to hunt houbara bustards

At least 13 permits were issued by the federal government to members of the Gulf royal families allowing them to hunt the houbara bustards...

Govt to charge $100k for houbara hunting

Wildlife Conservation Department Director Muhammad Naeem Bhatti on Tuesday confirmed that the federal government has issued orders to all the provincial governments stating that...

12 arrested, including Qataris, for illegal hunting in Balochistan

QUETTA: As many as 12 people, including four Qatari nationals, were arrested by security agencies for illegal hunting in Balochistan earlier this week. According to details, the...

Why Pakistani villagers attacked Qatari royals hunting houbaras in Balochistan

Unidentified armed men in Balochistan’s Musakhel district on Sunday evening attacked the convoy of a Qatari prince on an expedition to hunt the houbara...

Arab houbara bustard hunters’ convoy attacked

A convoy of houbara bustard hunters from Abu Dhabi, led by Prince Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, came under a gun attack in...

Ban on hunting of the Houbara Bustard

  The chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) has banned the hunting of the Houbara Bustard. The CM directed this order in a statement issued to...

Houbara hunting season for Qatari royal family under way in various...

Members of the Qatari royal arrived in various parts of Pakistan to hunt the internationally protected migratory bird houbara bustard for which the government...

For kicks and giggles and an awesome foreign policy

The man who spent a whopping Rs 7 million in this case to please the Saudi guest served the national interests as per government’s “cornerstone of foreign policy” while the government servants (police, district administration) pocketed millions of rupees which were given away in tips by the royal after eating the aphrodisiac meat.