It has been stated in a Conference held by the Department of Livestock Management of University of Agriculture Faisalabad on Role of Livestock in Pakistans Economy that rural women spent 60 to 80 percent of their time in animal husbandry. It is surprising that if main concern of rural women is animal husbandry why the only bachelors degree in the subject of animal husbandry was abolished in UAF and not initiated in the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Lahore. The scribe can say with hindsight of 60 years of professional experience that the sole reason was P.V.M.C. and U.V.A.S. which joined together to scuttle the basic degree in Animal Husbandry initiated by the Agriculture University under able guidance of late Vice Chancellor, Dr. Z.A. Hashmi. Unfortunately the veterinarians staged a coup to create a so-called composite degree of D.V.M. with 26% of animal husbandry courses to be a proverbial Amrit Dhara of livestock which the then Chancellor during Musharraf era could not forestall and hence demise of the only degree in the subject which concerned the rural poor women. Perhaps the present Chancellor could revive the degree in animal husbandry being the need of our time. DR.MUHAMMAD YAQOOB BHATTI, Lahore, May 3.