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| One polio team attacked, another threatened | |
| 2014-10-03 | |
| [DAWN] RAHIM YAR KHAN: One 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... team was attacked and another threatened in different areas of Khanpur tehsil, some 50km from here, on Wednesday.
When lady health worker Amna Hameed along with her son Shoaib reached a house in Mauza Ghunyan, Masood Khan came out with a gun and threatened to shoot her if she insisted on getting his kids vaccinated. Khanpur Saddar police have registered separate cases under sections 506 and 186. District Coordination Officer Nabeel Javaid said the first incident was a scuffle between teachers not an attack on a polio team and police tossed in the slammer Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! the teacher involved in the incident. The DCO said he was investigating the second incident in which a woman worker was threatened. He said the district administration was responsible for the protection of polio teams, adding the police had been directed to take extra security measures. A police official, requesting anonymity, told Dawn that police were reluctant to arrest Masood Khan because of his strong political links. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 What we need is a vaccine against stupidity. Good post Fred. |
| Posted by: Martin de Medici6501 2014-10-03 11:58 |
| #1 |
| Posted by: Big Thromoth3646 2014-10-03 07:40 |