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India-Pakistan
Cop killed in Peshawar attack on polio team
2013-12-01
[Pak Daily Times] Unidentified people opened fire on a 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 team in the city on Saturday, killing a policeman and injuring another, officials said.

Police officials said the attack took place in Bahadur Kallay area of 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 injured cop was shifted to a nearby hospital at death's door.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but the Pak Taliban have repeatedly targeted health workers who are vaccinating against polio, accusing them of being spies.

Violence has hampered the immunisation campaign in Pakistain, which is one of the three countries in the world where polio is endemic.

Resistance to polio vaccination by Talibs stiffened after the May 2011 raid on the late Osama bin Laden
... who doesn't live anywhere anymore...
's compound in Abbottabad
... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden....
. The US Central Intelligence Agency had used Pak doctor Dr Shakil Afridi to run a fake vaccination campaign in the area to gain access to the al Qaeda leader's hideout.
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