[DAWN] Police registered cases against 160 people in Nowshera after they refused to administer 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...
vaccine to their children during the ongoing anti-polio campaign in the district -- 10 people have also been tossed in the clink
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
in this regard.
The case was registered under Section 144 in Nowshera Kalan cop shoppe after the parents refused to let their children receive anti-polio drops.
According to police sources, the case was registered following the complaint of Union Council's official Akbar Ali. Police officials have initiated a crack down to arrest the remaining accused.
DIG Nowshera had ordered implementation of Section 144 in the wake of anti-polio vaccination campaign in the district. He had ordered police to take strict action against those who intervene and stop health teams administering polio drops to children below five years of age.
According to data available with Dawn, 96 per cent polio cases so far reported are among the Pashto-speaking population of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
and Fata and out of these, residents of North
Wazoo Agency's Wazir tribe accounted for 34 per cent of the cases. Earlier in September, 2015, KP had reported 25 polio cases for the year with at least five traced back to Fata.The World Health Organisation (WHO) had declared that Pakistain is responsible for nearly 80 per cent of polio cases reported globally.
To prevent the possible spread of the polio virus from Pakistain to other countries, the WHO imposed strict travel restrictions on the country.
Militant groups often attack polio teams as they see vaccination campaigns a cover for espionage. There are also long running rumours about polio drops causing infertility.