...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 in Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central
...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth...
's Khar district on Tuesday, officials said.
Officials in the political administration said the team was targeted while administering polio drops to children in the area.
The maimed were shifted to District Headquarters Hospital for treatment, the officials added.
Fieldworkers and security forces involved in anti-polio drives in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa have often been targeted by Death Eaters.