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India-Pakistan
Four Arabs among eight arrested for illegal hunting of houbara bustard
2017-12-04
[DAWN] Eight people, including four Arab nationals and a senior district council official, have been enjugged
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for being involved in illegal hunting of migrating houbara bustard birds in an area near the Pak-Afghan border in Nushki district.

Official sources said on Saturday that the personnel of Frontier Corps
...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...anti-smuggling operations....
deployed at a checkpoint in the Omer Shah area close to the border signalled a convoy of vehicles moving towards the border to stop. When people in the convoy ignored the signal and tried to escape, the personnel opened fire on them forcing them to stop. As a result, one person in the convoy was injured.

The personnel took all the people in the convoy into custody and shifted them to Nushki.

A security official said that the arrested people included four foreigners ‐ three from Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
and one from Oman. The other four were District Council Nushki’s vice chairman Muhammad Khalil and three local people, he added.

The sources said that the arrested men were going for illegal hunting of houbara bustard because they had no permit from the government for it.

They said the foreigners reached Nushki from Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
on the invitation of Mr Khalil. They said the foreigners were later shifted to Quetta for further investigation.

The injured was identified as Muhammad Yaqoob, a local man.

Posted by:Fred

#7  That one hurt, Steve S.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2017-12-04 15:14  

#6  OMG! You killed bustards! You Kenny!

(when the Pappy is away, the mice will play)
Posted by: SteveS   2017-12-04 14:19  

#5  Also, hunting with falcons is a traditional princely behaviour, and those rich Gulf Arabs do like acting like princes.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-12-04 11:34  

#4  :-) Nonplussed.

The appeal? According to the BBC, the shy, endangered, chicken-sized bird is considered an aphrodesiac.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-12-04 11:32  

#3  When mankind in Heaven has mustered
To spy on this cluster, unflustered,
They'll see but a scarab
And maybe an Arab
Nonplussed as he's cussed by a bustard.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2017-12-04 10:01  

#2  Satisfy their blood lust.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance   2017-12-04 02:04  

#1  I've never understood. What is so desirable about sending falcons after these birds?
Posted by: 3dc   2017-12-04 01:10  

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