Karachi (PPI) - The city might plunge into a severe crisis of meat and milk, as the cattle traders have threatened to halt supplying cows and buffaloes to Karachi from Sunday May 04 if the Agriculture Group of Offices and Department of Veterinary Services, City District Government, did not remove their check posts and stopped charging unauthorised fee in the name of vaccination etc. "The closing down of business would affect thousands of cattle traders of country and create shortage of meat and milk in Karachi, but the entire responsibility of the situation would lie on the officials of CDGK," Baloch Khan Lashari, president of the Livestock Traders' Welfare Association, with over 35000 members in interior of Sindh, Balochistan and Punjab provinces, told PPI on phone on Saturday. He told that above mentioned departments of CDGK have set up check posts at national highway, super highway, RCD highway and Northern bypass where a contractor, in connivance of CDGK officials, forcibly charges Rs.200 per cattle. This includes Rs.150 for milking animal and Rs.50 in the name of vaccination, which is illegal. Baloch Khan referred to a notification VET/322/2000 dated June 17, 2000 serial 6 (2) under Sindh Local Government Ordinance 2000 according to which the livestock traders have to pay Rs.150 as annual fee for a milking animal that also at dairy-farms and buffalo colonies.  "In violation of this notification, the CDGK officials have set up posts at entry points of the city and are charging the fee there that too for the animals brought for the slaughtering. "In addition to that, they are charging Rs.50 for vaccination of animals. This way they collect Rs.350, 000 a day for 7000 animals through a contractor, awarded this task without inviting tenders and fulfilling legal formalities," he alleged. Former EDO Agriculture Dr. Mohan Lal had abolished this system on July 26, 2008 but the present EDO Ali Zafar Zaidi restored it and awarded the contract to one Abdul Khaliq, he added. Baloch Khan told that the animals are given substandard vaccine using same syringe for several cattle. Moreover, the vaccinated cattle cannot be slaughtered at least for 14 days.