[Dawn] IF further proof were needed that the hostility to the 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...
vaccination campaign is intensifying, it can be found in the attack on the outskirts of 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.
on Monday. A small medical centre from where vaccination-related goods were being distributed was targeted with two remote-controlled bombs. While the larger explosive mercifully failed to detonate, two people -- one of them a policeman -- were killed and many more injured in the blast caused by the other bomb. This is perhaps the first time a health centre working on the issue has been targeted, and constitutes a worrying new dimension to the resistance to anti-polio efforts that has taken root in the country. Earlier, polio teams and workers have been attacked -- sometimes killed -- and in many cases their security escorts have also suffered. The net result: not only are unvaccinated children being increasingly exposed to a crippling, life-threatening disease, the herd immunity of the citizenry on the lam is also threatened with the resurgence of the poliovirus.