| Usual nonsense from the Taliban and assorted Islamicist miscreants. The children suffer, as usual, but that's their lot in life in Pakistain... |
Taliban have condemned the immunisation campaign, which began nationwide on Monday, as a cover for espionage. Pakistani doctor Shakeel Afridi was jailed for 33 years in May after helping the CIA to find Osama bin Laden using a hepatitis vaccination programme as cover.
Mazhar Nisar, in-charge of the polio-monitoring cell at the Prime Minister's Secretariat, said that the campaign has been postponed due to the ban in North Waziristan, South Waziristan and District Bara of Khyber Agency.
Local Taliban leader, Mangal Bagh, also made it difficult to inoculate children in Khyber district, officials said.