KARACHI (February 23 2004): Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad has stressed the need for ending the effects of negative propaganda against the poultry industry and said it was unnecessary to fear and avoid eating chicken meat.

He expressed these views while talking to a delegation of Karachi Wholesalers Poultry Association at Governor's House on Sunday.

The governor emphasised to take measures for removing apprehensions from the minds of the people and assured the association for every possible co-operation.

He said there was need for joint efforts to counter the propaganda against poultry industry.

He directed the concerned officials for arrangement of programs by experts at the provincial level for apprising the masses of the actual situation.

Earlier the delegation told him that World Health Organisation (WHO) and department of health had clarified that no case of Bird Flu was reported in Pakistan or any other Saarc country. They said that all Saarc countries were free from Bird Flu.

The delegation included Munir Qureshi, Dr Zafarul Islam, Shakil Hashmi, Sohail Shams and Akhter Siddiqui.

Courtesy Business Recorder