Khunjerab plan to protect leopards

Published October 16, 2006

GILGIT, Oct 15: The Khunjerab Villagers Organisation (KVO) will undertake a project to conserve snow leopards in areas around the Khunjerab National Park with the assistance of the United States.

Sources said that a memorandum of understanding between the Khunjerab Villagers Organisation and US had recently been signed to save the endangered feline specie.

Some local villagers and the Khunjerab Villagers Organisation staff would be imparted trainings about surveying leopards in the area with the help of remote-controlled camera trapping techniques, they said, adding that the villagers would also build protective corrals in various meadows for safety of livestock against predators.

DOUBLE MURDER: Police have started investigations into the killing of a girl student of class XI and her tutor allegedly by her uncle in the suburban town of Danyore on suspicion that they had illicit relations.

Sources said that Qasim Shah, a government employee, reportedly shot dead at Chandni Chowk in Danyore Sultan Karim, who was a tutor of his niece, Aneela, at a tuition centre in the town.

After killing Sultan Karim he went to his house and killed his niece who was sitting with her father in maze fields.

The sources said that the accused surrendered himself before the local police after committing the crime.

Family members of the deceased tutor said that the post-mortem of his body indicated that the allegations were false, whereas the girl’s body had been buried without autopsy.

Police said that Aneela’s father had registered an FIR against his brother and also the relatives of her tutor.

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