KARACHI, Oct. 10 -- The tragedy of Karachi Zoo is not confined to dying animals - it's a chilling reflection of human apathy and moral decay.

In a deeply moving investigative feature, journalist Aniqa Atiq Khan lays bare the horrors inside Karachi Zoo, where lions lie motionless, monkeys lick rusted bars, and a Himalayan brown bear named Rano paces endlessly in psychotic despair. "Captivity is its slow suffocation," Khan writes, recalling the lifeless eyes of the animals trapped in rusting cages, while families picnic, children zip-line, and Bollywood music blares through speakers.

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The contrast is grotesque - a festival of human laughter set against a graveyard...