... aka
Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight...
on Wednesday pledged personally to spearhead 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 efforts in the troubled northwest, which remains a hotspot for the crippling disease.
Pakistain is one of only three countries in the world where polio remains endemic, and efforts to stamp it out have been hit by opposition from Islamist snuffies and attacks on vaccination teams.
Police foiled an attempted attack on a polio team in 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...
on Tuesday, while a Taliban ban on inoculation in the tribal region of North
Wazoo last year has been blamed for a surge in cases.Khan's Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaaf party leads the government in the northwestern province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
, which borders North Waziristan.
He said attacks on polio workers must end.
"Those who are attacking polio workers are doing injustice to our province, our country and the whole of humanity," Khan told news hounds.