...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...
campaigns.
Saira Afzal Tarar, the Minister of State for National Health Services, told the house that the provinces shared fabricated figures of incomplete polio campaigns with the federal government, ultimately leading to travel restriction on Paks.
She was replying to an adjournment motion on international travel restrictions imposed on the country by the World Health Organisation (WHO) last week.
The motion was moved by Senator Rubina Khalid.
Saira Tarar said the figures coming from districts and reaching the federal government through the provincial governments put the success rate of the immunisation campaigns as high as 80 to 90 per cent.
She said Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
had remained the least accessible province in terms of immunisation, with just 16 per cent of the population benefiting from it, followed by Sindh with 29 per cent. Punjab has the highest level of immunisation with 68.5 per cent and in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
the rate was 52.5 per cent.
She said that only 0.5pc of refusals to get vaccinated were based on religious grounds.
Ms Tarar described 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...
, 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.
and Fata, particularly North
Wazoo, as dangerous in terms of strain of the poliovirus and justified measures taken by the Punjab government for internal travel restrictions on the people coming from other provinces.She also informed the Senate that around 1 million vaccination cards had been printed by the federal government, which would be sent to provinces. Local documents required by provincial governments would be valid till June 1, she said.
Leader of Opposition in Senate Aitzaz Ahsan flabbergasted many by holding out an assurance of full support to the government in the fight against polio.