Horrid Hunters.

Influential men were caught by locals after killing the eighth chinkara deer in Tharparkar.

A young man Ajeet Singh Sodho valiantly resisted and banged his vehicle to the jeep of the horrid hunters amid the volley of bullets. The locals rushed to the location, caught three hunters and handed them over to the police. Cruelty against animals is common in Pakistan. But as they say, there should be a method to the madness. The civilized world has abandoned this callous practice of hunting for pleasure. In today's world, killing poor animals who are important cogs in natural beauty and keeping the delicate ecological balance intact is not only a crime but is considered an abhorrent social ill.

We as a society are still stuck in the dark aeons of the distant past when cruelty against wildlife was major pastime activity. The officials from the wildlife department paid for protecting wildlife are either active facilitators of wildlife hunting or find themselves helpless against the hunter who is occupying the power corridor or those having backing from the powers that be. Some tribal chieftains majority of whom are ensconced by the...