The person carrying the supply was arrested and handed over to police for further investigation in order to nab the group involved in this heinous crime.
Source/Credit: Daily Times | Pakistan
By INP / DT | September 2, 2015
Authorities recover banned meat in a raid near Railway Station
LAHORE – The Punjab Food Authority on Wednesday stated to have recovered several kilograms of pork meat being supplied to Lahore and different parts of the largest province of Pakistan.
In a raid carried out near the Lahore Railway Station, the authority also arrested a suspect transporting the banned meat from Rawalpindi. The meat was found inside large drums loaded on a train. “It is being supplied to Lahore and then it is further sent to chains and restaurants where edible food is prepared,” Punjab Food Authority Director General (Operations) Ayesha Mumtaz told reporters.
The suspect said he was taking the meat to a factory in Sheikhupura where he believed they used it to produce some kind of chemical. But Ayesha said that the suspect was a member of a gang involved in supplying pork meat to different restaurants and food chains of Lahore and surrounding areas for consumption.
– Islam’s position on pork meat –
The food authority official said that the supply of the banned meat was being carried out illegally for a long time on train. In Islam, consumption of pork meat is prohibited strictly and banned in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has ordered the authority to check the supply of carcass meat strictly after the previous instances of confiscation of donkey and horse meat.
The supply has been seized and samples are sent to laboratory for a test to determine whether it is actually pork or some other form of substandard meat, Ayesha said. “We will carry out proper DNA testing of this meat and will take legal action against this suspect. We believe that this is an elaborate mafia, a chain and a vicious circle,” she said.
The person carrying the supply was arrested and handed over to police for further investigation in order to nab the group involved in this heinous crime. Pakistan has banned the sale/stock of pork in any sort or form as eating pig meat in any form is forbidden in Islam. The Punjab Food Authority has been going around Lahore fining, warning and sealing any establishment dealing with food that are found in unhygienic conditions – from high-end, expensive restaurants to low-end, small food businesses.
The authority stated it was doing this to create awareness not only about the food people were being served but also about hygiene, sanitation and cleanliness at restaurants, food factories and cafes. The chief minister has also taken serious notice of the confiscation of the pork meat and directed that no leniency should be shown to the culprits.
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