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Watch: Man Drives Through Karachi Streets With Lioness, Gets Arrested

IANS, 15 Jun, 2017 03:16 PM

    A Pakistani man left the bystanders startled when he took his pet lion for a night-time drive through the streets of the bustling southern port city of Karachi.

     

    The video of the incident has gone viral on social media.

     

     

    Keeping wild cats as pets is not uncommon in Pakistan, where wealthy businessmen have been known to operate private zoos and sometimes parade the animals for the public.

     

    However, the man was charged with public harassment. Businessman Saqlain Javed was arrested on Wednesday but later freed on bail.

     

    The brief clip shows a docile lion lounging in the back of a pick-up truck, restrained by a leash and collar, as curious onlookers walk past in the city of about 20 million people.

     

     

    Pedestrians jostling through the cars stumble into clawing ranging but the lion -- which is wearing a collar and a leash held by a man in the vehicle -- just yawns.

     

    "The man was driving around with his lion near a local market and it was a matter of endangering public life and property," senior police superintendent Muqadas Haider told

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