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KP police arrest 471 parents for refusing polio vaccine
 [DAWN] Police on Monday registered cases against more than 1,400 people in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. for refusing to vaccinate their children against 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... during the ongoing drive in the quiet provincial capital. According to a source in the police, the city police have also enjugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! 471 parents under Section 3 of the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) on the directives of Deputy Commissioner Riaz Khan Mehsud who have been sent to jail for refusing the vaccine. The source added that police officials have initiated a crackdown against the rest of the accused people. The local administration has ordered the implementation of Section 144 in the wake of the anti-polio drive in the city. Pakistain is one of only three countries in the world where polio remains endemic but years of efforts to stamp it out have been badly hit by reluctance from parents, opposition from snuffies and attacks on immunisation teams. Posted by: Fred 2015-03-03 |
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