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