No risk of bird flu in Pakistan: Sherpao

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(Free-Press-Release.com) July 7, 2006 -- No risk of bird flu in Pakistan: Sherpao

ISLAMABAD: Federal interior minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao has said that there is no risk of bird flu in Pakistan and government is taking every possible step to save poultry industry for the welfare of people.

Interior minister expressed these views while addressing in the ceremony of distribution of cheques to the affected owners of poultry farms here on Friday.

He said that government is responsible for the life and property of people and expressed its unity with the nation which was exhibited by Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz who ate chicken with the whole cabinet when the country was at the risk of bird flu.

He praised the owners of poultry flocks who cooperated with government in killing the affected hens without any regard of their own loss.

He underscored that government has fulfilled its promise to compensate their loss by distributing cheques among them.

Earlier, chief commissioner Islamabad Khalid Pervaiz told the interior minister that virus H-5 and N-1 were found in 28 different flocks of Tarlai and SIhala region for which 112,726 hens were killed.

Interior minister distributed cheques among the owners of poultry flocks and they thanked the interior minister and government for compensation of their loss.