The Pakistan Tanners Association (PTA) asked four provincial High Courts and Islamabad High Court to issue a ban against the exportation and smuggling of live animals.

Khurshid Alam, chairman of the PTA told local media that the Federal Ministry of Livestock and Dairy Development failed to take any immediate action to stop exports and smuggling despite assuring the PTA they would in a meeting on June 27, 2011. Mr Alam said the core issue of the export/smuggling of live animals from Pakistan to Iran and Afghanistan is based on statistics. He announced the launch of a campaign with the financial support of all sector associations in an effort to counter the smuggling and export of live animals.

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