[DAWN] Pakistain launched a fresh 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 drive in its restive tribal belt Monday, but officials warned that nearly 370,000 children are likely to miss out because of security problems.
At the start of May, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global "public health emergency" after new polio cases began surfacing and spreading across borders from countries including Pakistain.
Pakistain's seven semi-autonomous tribal areas along the Afghan border are the epicentre of the country's polio cases and the government has set up checkpoints to ensure anyone leaving the belt is immunised.
A three-day vaccination drive began on Monday in four tribal areas, a senior government official in 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.
, the region's main city, told news hounds, with more than 620,000 youngsters on course to receive polio drops.
But the official, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
, warned that children in three of the four targeted areas "would not be able to receive polio drops because of the militancy and opposition to the immunisation".
Violence has badly hampered the campaign to stamp out polio in Pakistain, where bad boy groups with strongholds in tribal areas, including the Pak Taliban, see vaccination campaigns as a cover for espionage.