In the aftermath of last week’s demolition of a pet market in Lahore, which many business owners said resulted in the deaths of their animals in their stores, Ayesha Chundrigar, who runs the Ayesha Chundrigar Foundation, one of Karachi’s largest animal shelters, is asking an important question: why do pet markets still exist?
In a series of stories posted to Instagram on Tuesday, the animal rights activist highlighted the dreadful conditions animals are kept in at such markets. Citing her experiences working to improve conditions in Karachi’s pet markets, she said she had no sympathy for the shopkeepers she’d s
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