Cruelty out at large!

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According to WHO, only three countries remain polio-endemic in 2012, out of which Pakistan is the only country which somehow has showed an increase in its polio cases of 2011-2012 than were recorded in the previous years. India got cleared from the list just recently whereby Nigeria,
Afghanistan and Pakistan remain the only three in the world where polio virus still fights back. Unfortunately the number of cases in Pakistan has increased to what it was back in 2010. With this worsening condition in Pakistan the greatest blow has just hit recently where series of attacks have been carried out on anti-polio workers.

A three day country wide anti-polio rally was organized this week by UNICEF which took the lives of eight anti polio health workers! The three-day drive sprained with blood is now over. What has come as a serious shock is that major part of the killings took place on Tuesday in the capital city of Karachi, where four female vaccination workers were killed in space of 20 minutes and another male vaccination worker was killed a day before that.

On Tuesday a student volunteer was shot in the head by motorbike riding gunmen who fired at a team of vaccinators in a northern suburb of Peshawar.

According to the reports “in Wednesday's violence, the vaccination supervisor and her driver died when their car was sprayed with bullets by gunmen riding motorbikes in Charsadda district, north-east of Peshawar”.
Eight lives in 48 hours in name of thwarting polio campaign is cruelty out at large! No group has claimed the responsibility so far but Talibans for long have reservations against such ‘foreign’ campaigns and have threatened people involved with these campaigns. They claim that these vaccinations are in actual a spying tool used by their enemies or are the destructive tools to sterile young kids. These claims heated up after a fake hepatitis vaccination campaign was carried out in 2011 to locate Usama Bin Laden. Yet no justification is acceptable to prove right such an act of cowardice.

According to BBC “Correspondents say the authorities were caught off guard by the violence - until now most attacks on health workers have taken place in north-western areas near militant strongholds”.

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Author: Maliha Naveed
Posted On: Thursday, January 03, 2013
Source: Pakistan Herald

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