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India-Pakistan
Polio drops mandatory for movement of FATA citizens
2014-05-16
[DAWN] Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
on Thursday decided to involve the Pakistain Army to ensure security on all FATA borders points and to regulate ingress of people from FATA to settled areas only if 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...
drops have been administered.

National Coordinator for Polio Eradication Ayesha Raza Farooq called on the prime minister today in Islamabad, where she briefed him on the initiatives taken at the federal and provincial levels to make the campaign successful.

Sharif said that it was his earnest desire to make Pakistain a country where no parents see their child crippled by polio.

He noted the importance for demonstrating mutual resolve and collective will to achieve the cherished goal of complete eradication of polio from the country.

Assuring complete support from the federal government, the prime minister expressed the hope that the provincial governments would further enhance their efforts and target the specified areas for optimal results.

Besides these, the national coordinator was also directed to meet the Governor Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
to ensure better access of polio workers.

Sharif also decided to convene a meeting of the national task force on polio as soon as possible.
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