SIR - "Fish feel pain" Whatever will we hear next? Is this another act of fiction by the Interference Party?

Bear in mind what is happening to blood sports. The only thing that has transpired from all the mud slinging is that the Government has condescended to license it. Not only that but the cost to the ratepayer for policing it will be enormous. Nice one IP!

The difference with fishing is that it is already licensed, therefore it is a pound to a pinch of snuff that the licence fees will be raised thanks to the Interference Party. Should these faceless people ever be invited to form a government then it is a certainty that tyranny will prevail.

Come on you sad plonkers, "Get a life!"

Trevor Williams-Berry, Bredon Avenue, Wrose

SIR - The Council has changed its letter-head material.

We used to have the emblem at the top centre with City of Bradford Met District Council written around it. To me that is the most impressive and attractive way of promoting the Council.

Instead what we have now is City of Bfd Met DC written in one line in white with blue background. Underneath that we have an orange background with blue writing of the Bradford website details.

I am certainly not impressed by this change. To me it does not give any sense of ownership nor any sense of heritage.

We are a democratic city. What steps did the Council take to consult the local residents, as it's their money that is paying for this change?

What they have done to the previous printed letter-heads - wasted or properly recycled?

Muhammad Azam, St Margaret's Road, Horton Grange, Bradford.

SIR - Stuart Schofield (T&A, April 30) states: "The Iraqis ... are right in wanting a total Islamic state without the intervention of the West".

May I ask him whether the one million Iraqi Christians - some in exile at present - should have any say in this?

And, ten years ago, did he feel the Serbian rulers were right to want a total "Serbian" (without Muslims) state in Kosovo and Bosnia?

A. Michael Murphy, Halifax Road, Keighley

SIR - On April 26 a Pakistani court in central Punjab sentenced another Christian to life imprisonment, accused under the Blasphemy Law.

Mr Ranjha Masih was accused of tearing down a billboard carrying verses from Quran during the protest after Faisalabad Catholic Bishop John Joseph shot himself in the head.

Blasphemy law is punishable by death under the penal code 295C which protects only Muslims' feelings, and is being used to enforce conversion to Islam.

There are various motives for these blasphemy charges, such as economic rivalry, personal enmity, political terrorism and religious hatred.

These Sariat laws have effectively turned minorities, especially Christians, into deprived and denied citizens of Pakistan, who are being exploited and persecuted by lawless Muslim extremists and terrorists.

We, the various leaders of the Asian Christian Welfare organisations in the UK and millions in Pakistan, urge the good Muslims to end apartheid in Pakistan so that the millions of Christians and minorities can live a normal life free from fear, threat and persecution.

Jim G Dutt (chairman, Pakistan Christian Welfare Organisation), Armidale Way, Bradford 2.

SIR - Re your Comment on April 28. I don't know where you get the idea we were promoting Bradford at Cardiff on Saturday. We only had one reason to go and that was to support a great team, "The Bulls".

I certainly do not tell anybody in the country I come from Bradford. It is too degrading to be the butt of people's jokes which goes for many other fans who choose to say they are from West Yorkshire when asked.

V J Mortimer, Aynsley Grove, Allerton.

SIR - The recent gun amnesty is said to have been "successful.".Is anyone nave enough to believe that any of the surrendered weapons were handed in by the criminal fraternity?

J R Renshaw, Currer Street, Bradford 1.