[Dawn] The World Health Organisation has declared 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.
a major hurdle to the country's 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...
eradication programme and called for effective vaccination campaigns to reach targeted children.
Dr Elias Durry, head of WHO in Pakistain, told Dawn on Tuesday that Peshawar, where P1 virus was consistently in circulation, had been declared 'red high-risk' district for polio as 70,000 children remained unimmunised in the first quarter of the current year.
He said more than 2, 25,000 children of immunisable age remained unvaccinated in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
, which had recorded three of the total five cases detected in the country this year so far.
"WHO is deeply concerned about the poor progress of polio campaigns in Peshawar, which is a major obstacle to polio eradication programme in the country. It poses a threat to other children's health," he said.