With the departure of the world’s loneliest elephant, Islamabad’s zoo has closed — but its empty cages hold clues to its animals’ suffering

A singer performs for Kaavan, Pakistan’s only Asian elephant, during a farewell ceremony in November before he was transported from the Marghazar Zoo in Islamabad to a sanctuary in Cambodia. (AFP/Getty Images)
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Updated 11 January 2021
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With the departure of the world’s loneliest elephant, Islamabad’s zoo has closed — but its empty cages hold clues to its animals’ suffering

January 11: The Washington Post report by Pamela Constable states that like an abandoned prison or asylum, the overgrown grounds of the now-shuttered Marghazar Zoo are filled with ghosts, and their rusting, barred enclosures hold sad clues to the neglect and mistreatment its inhabitants endured.

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