Four elephants caged at Karachi’s Safari Park and zoo will have to wait one more month for their check-up as the city government remains adamant that they are “perfectly healthy”. Foreign vets were expected to arrive in February to examine them, but the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation withdrew its permission last minute. The city government was then sued for mistreatment. A deadlock persists as KMC remains hesitant to allow UK-based charity Free The Wild, which transported Islamabad zoo’s sole elephant to a Cambodian sanctuary, to send its team to Karachi. It said that the charity was trying to “malign” it. The charity has, however, collected $17,637 in funds and purchased equ.