![]() ![]() "We are all absolutely heartbroken," said Mahera Omar, cofounder of the Pakistan Animal Welfare Society, which dispatched volunteers and local vets to bolster Noor Jehan's care, overseen by the Austrian-based animal charity, Four Paws International. Zookeepers laid Noor Jehan on a mound of sand beneath the only tree in her enclosure. She had to be winched out with a crane and could no longer stand independently. ![]() Then, in mid-April, she fell into a concrete pool in her dusty enclosure. The zoo neglected to help her until animal rights activists raised the alarm on social media. But a mysterious incident left her painfully dragging about on her two front legs. KARACHI – Noor Jehan, the African bush elephant, should have been in her prime. While ailing, African elephant Noor Jehan rested on a sand pile at a zoo in Karachi, Pakistan. ![]()
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