...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...
virus in Pakistain has been largely attributed to the northern tribal areas and Khyber Paktunkhwa province, official data reveals that the country's main port city of 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...
contributes a sizeable percentage of the crippling virus's circulation in KP and parts of Fata.
Official statistics available with Dawn.com show that 20 per cent of polio virus circulation in five districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhawa is genetically linked to Karachi, while the metropolis contributes 2 per cent of the crippling disease's circulation in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
The revelation follows the World Health Organisation's recent warning that Karachi is a pivotal destination to be made polio-free to make the rest of the world safe. The WHO has made it clear that ending polio in Karachi would end the disease not only in Pakistain but in all east Mediterranean nations.
"Karachi serves as an amplifier, exporting wild poliovirus nationally and globally," it says.
According to the official documents obtained by Dawn.com, the percentage of cases linked to Karachi are 9pc 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.
, 74pc in Tank, 66pc in Buner, 100pc in Tor Gar district, and 50pc of cases in Mardan. The data shows that Karachi also has a 2pc polio virus circulation link to Fata cases.
Overall, 6pc of cases from KP and Fata are said to be linked to Karachi.
The data shows that 45pc of all KP and Fata polio cases are linked to North
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Wazoo agency, 22pc linked to Khyber agency, 10pc to South Waziristan, and 8pc are linked to Peshawar.