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'Polio on agenda of talks with Taliban'
[Dawn] The government has decided to include polio...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... vaccination on the agenda of dialogue with the Taliban as 90 per cent of the cases during the current year have been reported from Fata where the gunnies have banned anti-polio campaigns. This was stated by Minister of State for Health Regulations Saira Afzal Tarar while talking to mediapersons at a function held in connection with the World Polio Day here on Thursday. It may be noted that Taliban have imposed a ban on polio vaccination campaigns in South and North  Wazoo.The minister said Taliban should understand the fact that children were suffering because of their ban on the polio drives. She said so far this year 49 cases of polio had been reported in Pakistain -- 36 in Fata, three in Punjab, four in Sindh and six in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... . "Polio virus circulation has been restricted to three zones i.e. Fata, Quetta and its neighbouring districts of Qilla Abdullah and Pishin and Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's Gadap Town." Ms Tarar said one of the biggest obstacles in the eradication of polio was the lack of consistent access to children in the highest risk areas. She said 260,000 children in North and South Waziristan had not been vaccinated against polio since July 2012. Posted by: Fred 2013-10-26 |
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