[DAWN] The health authorities postponed its special 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...
campaign, held on Sundays, in 'sensitive' neighbourhoods as they could not be provided security cover because of police preoccupation with protests organised by various opposition political parties in the city, officials said.
The special campaigns had been launched three months ago especially to target the areas where children missed out on polio boosters because of security situation.
"We could not continue with our scheduled Sunday campaigns because we could not get the required security cover from the authorities," said a bigwig in the provincial health department.
The campaigns have attained more importance in the wake of World Health Organisation's travel restrictions on the country for its staggeringly high contribution to polio cases recorded globally this year.
The official said the city was already in a state of chaos because of protest rallies organised by Imran Khan
... aka
Taliban Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five...
's Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is
Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
and its allies -- the Jamaat-e-Islami
...
The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka
The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an
independentbranch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
and the Pakistain Awami Tehrik of Dr Tahirul Qadri.
"Ironically," said another provincial government official, "our polio campaign this week has been pushed back by those who are themselves engaged in similar polio drives in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
province."