KARACHI, June 5: The city government in coordination with town municipal administrations is chalking out an elaborate plan to launch a campaign against pye-dogs as their population has assumed an alarming proportion in various parts of the city.

Asked what measures are being taken by the city government to bring an end to the menace of these pye-dogs as the dog-biting cases are being continuously reported at various city hospitals, a spokesman for the CDGK said that the issue was recently discussed in detail at a meeting held with the City Nazim, Niamatullah Khan, in the chair.

The meeting, he added, had decided to launch a full-fledged campaign against pye-dogs, simultaneously, in all the 18 towns of the metropolis and, at present, town nazims, municipal and health officers were being contacted with a view to giving a final shape to the campaign’s plan which might be announced within a couple of days.

Admitting that the dog-biting cases are increasing in the city, he said that though the CDGK had made an effort to give the task of eliminating these dogs from the city to some private organisations, except for a firm which was already dealing with the issue in the Defence Housing Authority, no other firm came forward.

However, we refused to give the contract of eliminating pye-dogs to the firm as its modus operandi of eliminating pye-dogs is to kill dogs with bullets and through tranquilisers, he said.

“We have asked the firm to devise some other method for eliminating pye-dogs as the CDGK cannot allow them to kill dogs with bullets as such a method could be dangerous for the people,” he added.