evidence: For over three decades, Pakistan's only Asian elephant has been confined to an inadequate enclosure at the Marghazar Zoo in Islamabad, Pakistan. At just a year old, he was given as a gift from the Sri Lankan government to the government of Pakistan in 1985 in order to build relations between the two countries. At six years old, Kaavan was joined by a mate, elephant Saheli from Bangladesh. The two elephants spent the next 22 years together, until tragically, Saheli developed an infection from the cuts caused by her chains and died in 2012.