In a whirlwind of news stories that keep surpassing previous ones in their brutality, it would not be incorrect to say cruelty is endemic in Pakistan. Moreover, it is so deep-rooted and non-partisan in nature that it does not distinguish between man and animal.

Last year, a man from Sanghar, Sindh, punished a camel for foraging in his field and violently chopped her leg off. Recently, a health update by the Comprehensive Disaster Response Services (CDRS) Benji Project for Animal Welfare informed the public that the camel, named Cammie, stood up for the first time with the help of a prosthetic leg. Only two months later, a similar fate has befallen another voiceless camel in Sukkur. Now named Sumi by the CDRS shelter, a two-year-old camel wandered onto a private land in search of water and

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