KARACHI: Collectorate of Customs Preventive team have recovered illegally caught 11 houbara bustards in a raid near Mochko.
According to statement issued by customs department the Recovered birds will be handed over to the Wildlife department. The birds were being tried to smuggle out of the country, officials further said.
The hunting of houbara bustard is officially banned but it used as foreign policy tool and government allows influential nationals of the Arabian Gulf states to hunt the bird for a price tag of 100,000 USD.
Recently Levies had arrested seven Qatari nationals for poaching houbara bustard in Balochistan’s Nushki district including members of the royal family of the Gulf state.
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