...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...
province a day after the cold-blooded murder of four 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...
vaccinators in Quetta.
"WHO would like to categorically dispel the notion of closing down or withdrawing its operations in Balochistan or anywhere else in Pakistain," said a statement sent to the press from Dr Michel Thieren, WHO representative in Pakistain.
Well-placed sources in the WHO's polio programme had told Dawn.com earlier today that the organization was suspending its activities in Balochistan following the murders in Quetta and looming threats to polio workers in Balochistan.
However,
a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all...
the press statement later in the day claimed that the organization was only applying "a standard and routine measure to limit its staff and contractor's exposure to any unsettled security situation".
"Such [a] measure intends to take the needed time to analyse in depth the event and its aftermath, and to explore working environment ahead of a prompt reversal of the measure taken," said the statement from the WHO representative.
The statement said the WHO remained committed to its goal of eradicating polio from Pakistain.