Foreigners accompanied by locals drove their jeep on a hiking trail inside the Margalla Hills National Park (MHNP) in Islamabad on 13 October, despite the fact that vehicles are not permitted there.
According to the details, they brought their jeep inside Trail 4 and claimed that it was a jeep track when someone tried to stop them.
The incident came to light after the Chairperson of the Islamabad Wildlife Management Board (IWMB) and Climate Activist, Rina Khan, tweeted about it and described how offenders could be seen driving their jeep across the Trail 4.
No respect for national park no respect for wildlife & no respect for our park rangers. Today these individuals brought their jeep inside trail 4 claiming it was a jeep track. They were then rude to IWMB volunteers who tried to stop them (the park rangers were inside the trail). pic.twitter.com/y7mScB0KyJ
— Rina S Khan Satti (@rinasaeed) October 13, 2022
Reportedly, the perpetrators utterly disregarded the wildlife and the local rules and grew hostile after IWMB volunteers attempted to stop them, given the fact that the Park Rangers were also stationed inside the mentioned track, who later caught them and told them to leave.
Chairperson IWMB revealed that the Capital Development Authority (CDA) is also attempting to penalize the violators while the IWMB will send them a legal notice.
It is pertinent to mention that Park Rangers cannot penalize anyone who refuses to obey wildlife rules since Parliament has not granted them such powers.
Note here that IWMB’s Wildlife Act is currently pending in the legislature, which if enacted, will give the Park Rangers the right to arrest and penalize violators.
Jail them…how dare they go on the trail in jeeps…utter disrespect obviously, they belong to a country with no rules.
It is good for country like us show them place .rule and law is for other countries in the world.From top no rule or law and here this writer is talking about trail jeep.
Lets see if they can pull this kind of stuff in their own country. And shame on this Pakistani who wants to satisfy foreigners by breaking the law.
None should be allowed to violate the serenity of these beautiful trails… GOP should take notice…
They could have called the Police🚨…
Please make an example out of them so that no body disturbs the sanctity of these areas again
100% lies. When the rangers stopped them they turned back and went. They barely went 5 mins inside the forest. The gate was open they didn’t know. Honest mistake. Could happen to anyone. No misbehaviour occurred.
It is a shame that a local person decided to violate the rules, show utter disrespect for the laws and sentiments of citizens, just to please foreigners. How do you expect foreigners to respect you as a nation, if you so openly and callously disrespect your own country?