PAKISTAN AUTHORITIES ACT TO RESTRICT CATTLE SMUGGLING TO AFGHANISTAN
July 1st, 2013
political and judicial authorities have taken action to slow the smuggling of cattle from Pakistan to Afghanistan, and Iran because of growing public discontent about the rising prices of meat in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. They border these two neighbouring countries.The Balochistan provincial assembly has passed a resolution demanding curbs on the illicit trade. Assembly representative Jaffar Mandokhel who had moved the assembly resolution complained that the cattle smuggling is endemic, with corrupt officials waving through around 100 ...
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