KARACHI: The team of Customs Preventive freed five falcons of precious speciman in Kheer-Thar National Park near Hub River in Balochistan.
The Deputy Collector Ali Turabi along with the staff of Wild Life Department and Hubara Foundation freed the falcons in air.
Speaking at the occasion, deputy collector said that the Customs Drug Enforcement Cell (DEC) staff seized those precious species of falcons at the arrival lounge of Jinnah International Airport-Karachi, last week.
The deputy collector further said that a passenger namely Lal Badshah took those falcons with out legal documents, adding that the Customs staff at Jinnah airport arrested the passenger and took him into custody.
Turabi further said that the DEC staffers have enjoyed full cooperation of their top officers inclduing Chief Collector-Enforcement Zahid Khokhar, Collector Preventive S M Tariq Huda and Additional Collector Dr Tahir Qureshi.
The Wild Life Officer Khalid Burfat informed the media that the falcons belong to two different precious species including one is belonged to “paragree” while other four are belogned “skicer”.
