CBC News 

Advertisements for ultrasound clinics that appear in Canadian Punjabi newspapers are promoting the abortion of female fetuses, charges the head of an immigrant society in Surrey.

Charan Gill, of the Progressive Intercultural Community Services Society, fought against ads for ultrasound clinics in community newspapers 15 years ago.

Now Gill is shocked that ads for ultrasound clinics are running in two Punjabi-language newspapers, the Ajit Weekly, based in Mississauga, Ont., and with a B.C. edition, and the Hamdard Weekly, published weekly from Toronto, New York, Vancouver and California, and the Indian city of Chandigarh.

The papers are distributed across Canada.

One ad provides B.C. phone numbers, including a line for Punjabi speakers, for anyone wanting to make appointments at Koala Labs, an ultrasound clinic in Blaine, Wash.

It reads, "You are told the sex immediately."