The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Wildlife Department has swung into action over illegal hunting of markhor at Chitral Gol National Park and ordered a thorough probe into the incident. The authorities have taken serious notice of a story published in Business Recorder that poaching of markhor in connivance with local wildlife officials is rampantly going on in Chitral, posing serious threat to the extinction of the rare specie.
Talking to this correspondent over the phone from Peshawar, Mubarak Ali Shah, Chief Conservator Wildlife Department KP, confirmed that an inquiry has been ordered soon after the story was published and stern action will be taken against those involved in the recent poaching incident.
When insisted that the illegal hunting of markhor was not possible without greasing the palms of the concerned DFO of the area, he maintained that let alone the DFO, whosoever is involved in such illegal activity, will not escape the wrath of the law. Shah continued that if this is the negligence of the concerned officials, it will spoil the image of the country at international level. "I assure you that nobody will be spared, it's a crime, why they (wildlife staff) were so helpless, we've taken up the issue", he asserted. The chief conservator said that Chitral Gol National Park is one of largest wildlife conservatories of the country, which holds around 2000 markhor.
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