CHITRAL: A Spanish national hunted a Kashmir Markhor with a horn length of 41.5 inches in community-managed game reserve area of Gahirait-Golen here on Sunday. He had obtained the permit from the wildlife department at $219,000 (Rs61.257 million), which is said to be the second highest price for the wild goat.

Divisional forest officer, Chitral wildlife division, Farooq Nabi told Dawn that assisted by the local community, Cristian Pablo Abello Gamazo, 52, faced no difficulty in searching the nine-and-half-year wild goat of the trophy-size.

He said the hunter took a record time of only five minutes to hunt the goat down firing from a distant range using his 330-win-mag rifle.

Mr Nabi said the Spanish hunter is businessman by profession having experience of trophy hunting of different animals in many countries, while it was his first adventure in Pakistan.

Published in Dawn, January 13th, 2025