Karachi Dogs

The islands near Karachi, despite their lack of food and fresh water, have become a sanctuary, an alternative where estimates suggest hundreds of dogs avoid the cull.

More than a thousand stray dogs have been poisoned to death by municipal workers in Karachi after a deluge of complaints about animals biting women and children, an official said on Wednesday.

Officials have poisoned hundreds of dogs in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi in the latest effort to curb a population of strays that attack thousands of people each year in the teeming mega-city of some 20 million.

In a neighbourhood in Karachi, Pakistan, Hamza (20) and Hassan Hussain (22) pet more than 100 snakes, and have been aptly nicknamed the Python Brothers. Fascinated by snakes since their teenage years when they first watched Jungle Book, they soon turned passionate about them so much so that this duo now claims to have various species of snakes livi...

The islands near Karachi, despite their lack of food and fresh water, have become a sanctuary, an alternative where estimates suggest hundreds of dogs avoid the cull.

More than a thousand stray dogs have been poisoned to death by municipal workers in Karachi after a deluge of complaints about animals biting women and children, an official said on Wednesday.

Officials have poisoned hundreds of dogs in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi in the latest effort to curb a population of strays that attack thousands of people each year in the teeming mega-city of some 20 million.

In a neighbourhood in Karachi, Pakistan, Hamza (20) and Hassan Hussain (22) pet more than 100 snakes, and have been aptly nicknamed the Python Brothers. Fascinated by snakes since their teenage years when they first watched Jungle Book, they soon turned passionate about them so much so that this duo now claims to have various species of snakes livi...