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“#Pakistan foils attempt to smuggle endangered falcons<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Pakistani authorities said Saturday they had foiled an attempt to smuggle dozens of endangered falcons worth more than one million dollars out of the country.<\/p>\n

Wildlife traffickers catch falcons in Pakistan’s mountainous north, often to sell them for lucrative profits in the Gulf region, where hunting with the birds is a popular sport.<\/p>\n

Customs officials seized 75 falcons and a houbara bustard at locations around the southern port city of Karachi in what they called an “unprecedented” anti-smuggling operation.<\/p>\n

“The birds are listed as rare and endangered species and their trade is strictly banned,” said senior customs officer Mohammad Saqif Saeed.<\/p>\n

He did not identify the species of the birds but estimated their value to be around 200 million rupees (over $1 million) on the black market.<\/p>\n

Authorities have arrested two suspects and plan to release the birds into the wild. <\/p>\n

The houbara bustard is a desert bird whose meat is prized among Arab sheikhs as an aphrodisiac.<\/p>\n

Falcons are often used by wealthy hunting parties from the Gulf who travel<\/a> to Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province every winter to catch and kill the houbara.<\/p>\n

An earlier ban on the sport was overturned by Pakistan’s top court.<\/p>\n

Two hundred rare falcons were reportedly exported to Qatar from Pakistan earlier this year on special permission.<\/p>\n

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Pakistan asks Supreme Court to overturn ban on hunting rare bird\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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