Tactically vacated F-9 Park’s mortgaging on cards
Pak Chronicle Report
Islamabad
Earlier the largest park in F-9 Sector in Islamabad was vacated of animals after inviting a lot of criticism all around the world mainly focusing on deplorable conditions in which the animals were kept in the zoo over here and now mortgaging of this park is on the cards of the federal government to get a loan of around Rs500 billion.
The proposal in this connection is the part of agenda of the meeting of the federal cabinet which will be held on tomorrow (Tuesday).
According to some media reports the meeting will be held through video link conference system which has been arranged at Prime Minister’s House and a committee room of the Cabinet Division.
The F-9 Park which is known as Fatima Jinnah Park is a public recreation park spread on 759 acres of land. The park is one of the largest covered green areas in Pakistan. It is named after Fatima Jinnah who was the sister of founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
The only zoo in Islamabad which was established in F-9 Park has been in the limelight in the recent past for all the wrong reasons.
It drew international criticism and condemnation for its treatment of lonely elephant Kaavan.
Kaavan was relocated in December last year by sending it to another facility situated abroad through an airplane.
Other occupants of the zoo were shifted to some other zoos in Pakistan and it was closed on December 16 last year by relocating two Himalayan bears to a foreign destination.
Two Himalayan bears named Bubloo and Suzie were the last to leave the Islamabad Zoo, almost three weeks after the country’s only Asian elephant, Kaavan was flown to a wildlife sanctuary in Cambodia.
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