...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...
vaccinator is barbaric even by the most brutal standards. Salma Farooqui, a wife and mother of five and an active participant in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
's Sehat ka Insaf anti-polio initiative, was kidnapped from her village in suburban 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 Sunday night and tortured and killed. The victim's perforated carcass was found in a field on Monday. It boggles the mind to think how those who justify or at least tolerate attacks on polio workers will defend this horrific crime. As reported, the victim's body seemed to have received blows from rifle butts and cuts from knives. There were no claims of responsibility till the time of writing and police said the motive for the murder was unclear. However,
a lie repeated often enough remains a lie...
Ms Farooqui's family are convinced she was targeted due to her polio work as she had been receiving threatening calls. Even though the banned TTP may have in recent days 'distanced' itself from attacks on polio teams, some Death Eater leaders have also admitted there are 'hard-liners' within their ranks who still regard vaccinators and those who protect them as kosher targets. At least a dozen coppers escorting vaccinators were killed in Jamrud, Khyber Agency
, earlier this month while polio workers were kidnapped from Frontier Region Tank in February. At least three health workers were bumped off 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...
in January. Overall, one estimate suggests around 60 people related to the anti-polio campaign have been killed since December 2012.
Salma Farooqui soldiered on in her brave mission despite mortal threats; but on Sunday night the monsters who insist on crippling Pakistain's children and murdering those who wish to vaccinate them against disease registered another 'success'. For the countless other Salma Farooquis in this country working to save Pakistain's children from permanent disability and even death, the state must bring the criminals responsible for her killing to justice and strike at the root of the problem. In the meantime, we will wait for the TTP and its political supporters to openly condemn this outrage.