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| Teachers refuse to run anti-polio drive |
| 2015-01-28 |
| [DAWN] MINGORA: The All primary teachers association (APTA), Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... chapter, on Monday refused to take part in the anti-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... drive due to precarious security situation in the area. The teachers also staged a protest in front of the Swat Press Club condemning the government for planning to deduct their salaries for refusing to participate in the anti-polio drive. They also raised slogans in favour of their demands. APTA leader Ibrahim Shah Bacha said that providing security to the schools was the responsibility of the government and not of the teachers. He complained about the behaviour of the executive district officer, education. The teachers also criticised the provincial government for not issuing a notification regarding their promotion. Swat APTA president Syed Sikandar Shah Bacha and general secretary Roedad Khan also participated in the protest and vowed to struggle for their rights. Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard... a meeting chaired by Malakand division RPO Azad Khan at the Jirga Hall in Saidu Sharif on Monday discussed security measures for educational institutes in Swat. Principals of government and private schools, officials of health and all the line departments and DPOs attended the meet. RPO Azad Khan said that the police were taking every possible step to ensure security of schools in the division. "We have shared emergency software with three schools and the other schools will get it soon," he said, adding that providing security to educational institutions was the responsibility of the government. |
| Posted by:Fred |