A singer performs for Kavaan, Pakistan's only Asian elephant, during his farewell ceremony before travelling to a sanctuary in Cambodia later this month, at the Marghazar Zoo in Islamabad on Nov 23, 2020. - AFP
ISLAMABAD (AFP): With music, treats and balloons, friends of Pakistan's only Asian elephant threw a farewell party for the creature ahead of its relocation to Cambodia following years of campaigning by animal rights activists.
The plight of Kaavan, an overweight, 35-year-old bull elephant, has drawn international condemnation and highlighted the woeful state of Islamabad's zoo, where conditions are so bad that a judge in May ordered all the animals to be moved.
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