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2021-12-13 India-Pakistan
Gunmen shoot dead a policeman guarding a polio vaccination team in Pakistan’s northwest
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

The attack in the province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa came a day after two men with the Pak Taliban
...Arabic for students...
shot full of holes another police officer who was guarding a similar vaccination team in the same area."Two button men riding a cycle of violence opened fire on a policeman who was guarding a two-member female 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. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain...
vaccination team in the Sheikh Uttar area, killing him on the spot," Tank district police chief Sajjad Khan told AFP.

Another local police official, Amanat Ali, confirmed the incident and said the assailants had escaped.

No one has grabbed credit for the killing, but a front man for the Pak Taliban earlier claimed Saturday’s attack.

It comes after the turbans on Friday ended a ceasefire with Pakistain’s government mediated with the help of the Afghan Taliban, accusing authorities of violating the terms of the one-month truce.

No progress had been made in fresh negotiations with Pakistain’s government, according to an audio message released late on Friday by Pak Taliban leader Noor Wali Mehsud.

Prime Minister Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five...
announced in October that the government was in talks with the group for the first time since 2014, facilitated by the Afghan Taliban, who seized power across the border in August.

The Pak Taliban -- a separate movement from Afghanistan's new leaders but which shares a common history -- plunged Pakistain into a period of horrific violence after forming in 2007.

Police guards protecting vaccination teams in Pakistain have come under attack in the past, mostly from homegrown murderous Moslems.

Pakistain is one of two countries where polio remains endemic but only one case has been reported this year after 84 in 2020, according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
Posted by Fred 2021-12-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ]  Top
 File under: Pak Taliban (TTP) 

#1 Looks as if demining is safer.
Posted by Richard Aubrey 2021-12-13 01:12||   2021-12-13 01:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds like a new Marvel Universe thread.

Acolytes of the Iron Lung
Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-13 09:49||   2021-12-13 09:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Boy, am I glad to live in a country where such events could never ever happen... in this calendar year.
Posted by Spuck Phavith2468 2021-12-13 19:14||   2021-12-13 19:14|| Front Page Top

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