Pakistan buys infected Australian sheep

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The same sheep were rejected by Bahrain since they were infected by scabby mouth disease but Pakistan bought them. Now they will be disposing them off, another wastage of public money.

Infected Australian sheep to be disposed of - geo.tv

**KARCHI: Commissioner Karachi, Roshan Ali Shaikh has ordered the culling and disposing of about 21,268 diseased Australian sheep imported from Bahrain, Geo News reported.

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Talking to Geo News, Roshan Ali Shaikh said that the livestock department of Sindh has been directed to start the disposal operation, which might take more than one day.

He said in the first phase the veterinarians would administer lethal injections to all the sheep so that they could be killed humanely and in the second the carcasses would be dumped in a mass grave.

“Heavy earthmoving machinery, to dig up a big dump, is on its way to the farm where the sheep have been corralled”, he said.

Earlier on Saturday, the Sindh livestock authorities confirmed the consumption of the sheep imported from Australia was injurious to health.

According to officials, random testing validated Australian Merino sheep were suffering from scabby mouth disease.

“The veterinary diagnostic laboratories in Islamabad an Tando Jam tested the blood samples of at least 80 sheep and the saliva of nine of them”, an official added.

“The samples from the sheep tested positive for 100 percent presence of salmonella and actinomyces, a couple of pathogens”, officials added further.

They also tested positive for 44 percent E. Coli, a species of bacterium, which could be highly pathogenic.

Last week, the livestock department had sealed the farm where Australian sheep believed to be infected with a contagious disease are being kept.

A total of near 22,000 infected Australian sheep were unloaded at Port Qasim on September 13.

Approximately 75,000 sheep departed from Australia on board the Fremantle-based Wellard Rural Exports ship Ocean Drover.

Their destination was countries in the Middle East. 53,000 sheep were offloaded in Qatar and Oman, while the remaining 22,000 were to be transported to Bahrain.

However, when the Ocean Drover arrived in Bahrain on August 29 it was asked to leave its berth until matters were resolved.

It was here that concerns were raised in regards to the sheep being infected with scabby mouth disease. The ship remained in the waters of Bahrain for 14 days and the sheep were not allowed to be unloaded.

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Their destination was countries in the Middle East. 53,000 sheep were offloaded in Qatar and Oman, while the remaining 22,000 were to be transported to Bahrain.
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The question is that why Australian authorties willingly exported these infected sheeps? I mean they knew it right?

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^ The Australians wanted to get rid of them, the question remains when Bahrain refused to purchase them why did our authorities agree to buy them?

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We know almost authorities here in Pakistan blind and deaf when its about to earn some money they dont care even some dies or get sick. But I am really confused what make Austrlian authorities to load those effected sick sheeps for export no matter where it is.

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A day before this was what Pakistani authorities were saying.

Infected sheep: Disease reports are false propaganda

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The Pakistani importer of the Australian sheep, PK Livestock and Meat Managing Director Tariq Mehmood Butt, also reiterated his claim that the consignment of live animals is free of disease. “Why do not they present us any evidence? Can they produce any proof of the lab results they are talking about?” Butt said while speaking to The Express Tribune on the phone.

In a statement emailed to The Express Tribune, company’s Executive Director Saqib Butt said the report was false and part of a propaganda campaign. “We received a report from the federal laboratory in Islamabad, saying the animals are absolutely free from any disease and are safe for human consumption
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Thanks to media to put it in public otherwise Authorities here were fully ready to make us eat this infected meat.

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Shame on Australian exporters if they sent livestock which could harm masses.

Waiting for some excuses which will be accepted by some people.

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‘australian sheep scandal’ awaited ! hope they dont sell them off in local markets for eid :bummer: who cares they are harmful. ‘imported bakray’ tau hain na jaisay bhi hain :smack:

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Pakistan is the most favourite destination for everything odious, be it infected sheeps, freelancing jihadis or runaway heads of terror groups.

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couldnt they dump them in sea. atleast their sacrifice wont go waste and they will become part of food chain again.
what a waste. i hope they rear the sheeps before they get culled.

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Kaka sea is not for that purpose the best is killed infected animals and dump in deep in earth for hralth protection measure both human and other living.

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Some years ago a ship of Australian sheep was rejected by KSA and sent to Pakistan. Later it was given to Edhi Trust after same row.

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‘Experts may check Australian sheep’
ISLAMABAD, Sept 19: Agriculture Minister Sardar Yar Mohammad Rind has said the government is trying to send experts to Dubai to check the sheep offered by the Australian government.

“We will accept these sheep with thanks to the Australian government if we find them healthy, suitable and beneficial. Otherwise, we will reject them with thanks,” the minister told the Voice of America.

He said Pakistan was itself a meat exporting country and its clients in the Gulf could ask why it had accepted the sheep which they had rejected.

He said there were not sufficient facilities to take care of the huge consignment of sheep in quarantine and the disease could spread among people.

The ship carrying the sheep was in Dubai harbour and the Australian government wanted Pakistan to take them, he said.—APP

‘Experts may check Australian sheep’ -DAWN - National; September 20, 2003](http://archives.dawn.com/2003/09/20/nat17.htm)

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maybe i didn't get it so please pardon me ..... The Aussies packed the ship with the infected sheeps (probably some farmer or company and not the Government) and off they go .... now this ship sials out of Aussies waters and all of sudden they land in the Mid East ..... having turned down there they head to Pakistan and load/sell off the stock and leave happily with bags packed of Dollers ....

1st Question: What made the Mid East Countries to turn away the Aussies ship ??

2nd Question: What made Pakistan tuy the stock still knowing the stock was turned down just a few days back by others ??

Calling those Aussies criminals isn't wrong ..... but it takes two to complete such a stunt ..... guess who is the 2nd Party in this to have made it possible !!!!!!

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^ the Aussies sent the sheep to middle east, at that time the sheep were ok. They had to drop sheep at Qatar and Oman, and it took them a while to get a berth at Bahrain port. Anyways, when the Bahrainis checked the sheep they were infected hence they refused to buy them. After refusal they contacted Pakistan and guess what they accepted them without checking for disease. I don't understand if Pakistan really needs to import cattle or not, as we are an export country ourselves. This would send shock signal to the middle east and other importers of our cattle, as our testing facilities seem to be pathetic as well.

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disposed off? yeah right :rolleyes:

that meat will be used somewhere… maybe at dhabas. No one in pakistan is going to throw away so much meat, especially when the price is so high.

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KARACHI, Sept 17: The imported Australian sheep declared to be suffering from highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease were found kept in close proximity to other animals brought for slaughter at a private farm where culling of the sick animals continued for a second consecutive day on Monday, a visit to the private farm in Razzakabad showed.
The farm belongs to the P.K. Livestock and Meat Company which had purchased the sheep earlier rejected by Bahrain.
The government decided to cull more than 21,000 recently imported sheep after laboratory tests confirmed that they were infected with harmful bacteria and had foot-and-mouth disease.
The diseased animals, many of whom looked weak and were shivering, shared their feed container with other animals. This is surprising given the fact that the farm had reportedly been ‘sealed’ by the livestock department for more than a week. When this point was raised with government officials present there, they said the issue was being looked into.
“Animal movement has been banned within the farm and no new animal is being brought here or the old ones are being taken away.
Culling is also being done at the farm because shifting could have spread the infections,” Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh, representing the provincial livestock department, told Dawn.
He asserted that slaughtering was a safe method to dispose of sick animals and said that more than 700 animals had been culled and buried in a 15- to 20-foot-deep ditch and the process would continue once electricity supply came on in the evening, he said.
Answering a question about the slow pace of culling, deputy commissioner of Malir Qazi Jan Mohammad said butchers engaged in the night refused to resume work in the morning on time and arrangements had to be made to replace them.
“We haven’t sealed off the farm but vigilance is in place,” he said, adding that the authorities were paying Rs10 per head for sheep slaughtering.
Expressing their concern over safety issues involving care of the diseased animals, senior veterinary experts said the government should have quarantined the animals suffering from foot-and-mouth disease.
“Since it is a highly infectious disease and can be spread by infected animals through aerosols, contact with contaminated equipment, clothing or feed and by domestic and wild predators, the infected animals should have never been in an environment where they could come into contact with other animals,” Dr M. Sayedain Jaffery, a senior veterinarian, said.
He also questioned the need for importing adult live animals and said that rather than wasting the nation’s scarce resources, the government should aim at creating conditions conducive for attaining higher targets of productivity with lower rates of flock depletion mainly due to malnutrition, mismanagement and impaired health.
“The government focus should be on improving the inherent productive potential of our own animals as developed countries have made remarkable progress in the field through painstaking research and imaginative planning,” he said.
Pakistan had no dearth of competent animal scientists and experts in disciplines of health, genetics, nutrition and farm-technology who could achieve what may seem impossible.
“Why does our indigenous buffalo yield more in Bulgaria and Italy than what it does here in its own natural habitat? Why can’t the millions of newborn male calves be saved from starvation and slaughter and raised for high quality beef?” he said.
The expert observed that it would have been more prudent on the part of the government that instead of importing animals not wanted in the exporting country, it made a project to apply modern technology of animal farming and educate farmers in this science-oriented business.
No action has yet been taken against the importer and the federal quarantine department officials who allowed the release of the diseased animals.
The samples from animals were tested at the Sindh Poultry Vaccine Centre and Tandojam Central Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.

http://dawn.com/2012/09/18/australian-sheep-expose-local-animals-to-disease/

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Australia’s government is stating that the sheep are not infected.

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If donkey meat can be sold in Pakistan, I dont see a problem with sheep that has scabby mouth disease.

From what I have read, scabby mouth disease has a vaccine, and goes away after running its course. It is not fatal to humans, if the catch it.

At the very least, they could have used the hides of these sheep.

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Looks like conspiracy by donkey and dog meat sellers:)