Heart-breaking images of monkeys forced to perform for Pakistan's public

These animals cannot communicate through words. But these pictures of miserable monkeys dressed in human clothes and with chains around their necks speak volumes.

For some impoverished families in Pakistan's Rawalpindi and the outskirts of Islamabad, training a monkey to dance is a vital source of income. But animal rights activists have condemned the popular practise.

Monkeys are snatched from the wild as babies and trained to dance and perform tricks to large crowds, often by means of violence. This is the tragic result: