Wildlife Conservation Department Director Muhammad Naeem Bhatti on Tuesday confirmed that the federal government has issued orders to all the provincial governments stating that the foreigners should be “charged a fee amount” for hunting the Houbara Bastards. Following this, a process to collect the fees has been initiated by the government. In order to maintain complete transparency over the use of funds, a committee has been formed in this regard. In October, a ban on free hunting of Houbara by foreigners was imposed by the government. Moreover, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government had removed the fee being charged from the foreign hunters.

Source: Pakistan Today January 08, 2019 09:33 UTC