QUETTA: Prince Fahad Bin Sultan Al Saud, the governor of Tabuk and a member of Saudi royal family, returned to Saudi Arabia on Thursday after hunting houbara bustard in the desert of Chagai district.

Adviser to the Chief Minister on Public Health Engineering Sakhi Amanullah Notezai and senior officials of the local administration saw him off at Dalbandin airport.

The governor of Tabuk had reached Dalbandin, the headquarters of Chagai district, on Jan 7 along with his entourage. After a brief stay at the airport; he left for the desert area of Dalbandin allotted to him by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for hunting houbara bustard.

Prince Fahad Bin Sultan spent over three weeks in the desert area with his staff and other officials who had arrived with him.

During that period, he hunted houbara bustard, an internationally protected migratory bird, which flies from Siberia to the warmer desert areas of Balochistan, southern Punjab and parts of Sindh and KP.

Published in Dawn, February 2nd, 2018