Adil Najam
The pictures that follow are graphic and horrific. So, please do not scroll any further if you think you cannot handle them.
These are pictures of a dog fight, taken yesterday outside the village of Lora in Abbottabad District. But such fights happen in many places in Pakistan. Not every day, but often enough for all of us to be incensed, to be disgusted, and to be angry about.
There are some who consider this to be a sport. They are wrong. Very very wrong. This is not sport. This is cruelty. This is inhuman. This is also illegal.
The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act of 1890 is clear on this point: Section 3(a) reads as follows: “if any person overdrives, beats, or otherwise treats any animal so as to subject it to unnecessary pain or suffering, he shall be punished, in the case of a first offence, with fine… or with imprisonment. .. or with both.”
But – think about it – do we really need a law to recognize that what is happening in these pictures is just wrong. Very very wrong. Cruel. And illegal.
There are others who will tell us that this happens elsewhere too, including other places where it is technically illegal. In Latin America, in Russia, in Central Asia, and even in the United States. That is true. But that makes this what we see in these pictures (or what happens in those countries) no less wrong. No less cruel. No less inhuman. No less disgusting.
@Gulab Khan.
So you are suggesting that people fight these dogs because of drone attacks. Really? How does cruelty to animals help in the drone attacks?
i find it very amusing how we’re so stupid as to think we’re better then them and deserve to be called human, when we are nothing less than the dirt we walk on. they call it illegal to do this to humans, they call it “Inhumane” the very bullshit humans WOULD say to save their own butts that are not worth a freaking assasin to kill. animal cruelty is truly inhumane, the owners being treated the same is not inhumane, it would be a public service, that is if the high and mighty human would get off their ignorant high horse and see the freaking truth. but they wouldnt be on a horse, they would send the horse to a glue factory for profit, that’s all humans ever care about, no matter who has to suffer. I would love to shoot them off their pedestal, and possibly their heads too…..
I am watching the crowd and all i see are lower middle class people who don’t seem to dwell on the higher planes of intellect. For them this might be an event of the year or a day worth remembering or something like that. It is right to be critical about it but its not right to be judgmental. I would like to hear what people who are watching this so keenly think about this and then i will make up mind about what needs to be done. It is easy to come clean out these sort of things by declaring that you are against such practices but at the end of the day would that save these poor creatures from the terrible fate humanity has decided to bestow upon them?
I really don’t get this high class incredulity and bemoaning about the country whenever they come across these.
The author of this entry is just looking at it from one preceptive which might be 100 % on the money but its totally ineffectual in explaining this tragedy completely.
Gulab Khan is very right, Missile attacks in the Northeren areas are never mentioned by our highly educated expats who have taken US and UK nationalities, they only point out these things. I do not agree with those who have spent their lives abroad and they only want to criticise their home country which have given them the opportunity to do all this. Please Please instead of criticising. come to pakistan and do something which can bring a positive change.
Also I would request them to show a clear picture of their area of residence and we will know how much right of expression they have.
What we Pakistanis have become? Worried about dogs but when drone kill children we keep quiet.