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Mohmand Agency... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar...
on Wednesday killing two off-duty 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...
vaccinators and their relative, officials said.
The blast occurred in Ali Nagar village in the Mohammad tribal district along the Afghan border where Talibs are active. The bomb went off near the house of polio vaccinator Mohammad Gul who was out walking with his brother, also a polio worker, and his cousin, although it was not clear whether they were specifically targeted.
"Two polio workers and their cousin were killed in the kaboom," local government official Khushhal Khan told AFP. A local security official also confirmed the bombing and casualties. The dead bodies were shifted to tehsil hospital Safi. Soon after the blast, the security forces rushed towards the blast site and cordoned off the area and kicked off search operation, however, no arrest was made till filing this report.
Nobody grabbed credit for the bombing, but turbans have been aggressively targeting immunisation workers across Pakistain. The turbans allege polio vaccination is a cover for espionage or Western-conspiracy to sterilise Moslems. Those conspiracy theories gained further traction after the CIA recruited a local doctor to start a vaccination programme during the hunt for the late Osama bin Laden
... who is now sometimes referred to as
Mister Bones...
which dismayed many aid and health workers.
Some 60 people including health workers and police providing security have been killed in hard boy attacks on polio vaccination teams since December 2012. Pakistain is one of three countries where polio is still categorised as an endemic viral infection. The other two countries are Afghanistan and Nigeria. The number of polio cases recorded in Pakistain passed 200 for the year last week, a 14-year-high. Officials said 136 of the new cases were recorded in the troubled north-western tribal areas that border Afghanistan.