Australian sheep exporter complains about Pakistan incident
26/10/2012
The animals arrived in Pakistan in August and a local importing company, PK Livestock, took possession of them. Local authorities then announced that the animals would be culled because of health concerns and around 7,000 of the consignment of 22,000 were killed before PK Livestock secured an injunction and the cull was stopped by the Sindh High Court.
After a series of tests carried out by the UK-based Pirbright Institute, Wellard says the animals were given a clean bill of health. However, the cull continued in the week leading up to the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, which this year began on October 26.
Wellard told Australian media that its representatives and those of PK Livestock were forcibly removed from the abattoir before the authorities slaughtered the remaining animals and that, therefore, it could give no guarantee that the slaughter had been carried out humanely.
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