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Meat prices rise in Kandahar due to cattle smuggling

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KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Residents of southern Kandahar blame the lack of animals and high price of meat on livestock smuggling to Pakistan from the province.

They demand an end to the livestock smuggling which they say has threatened the country’s livestock sector.

Ahmad Shah, a resident of Shkarpora area of Knadahar City, said the provincial capital was the biggest livestock trade center. “Animals from Kandahar, Helmand, Uruzgan and Zabul provinces are brought here for sale.”

He said animal purchased there were then smuggled to . . .

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