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I was just reading an article yesterday that Taliban millitants are hugely against Polio Drop campaign in Pakistan. They are saying its a western ploy to damage Islam in Pakistan. How? Does polio drops have anything to do with religion? Its medicine to prevent disease. Why is Taliban against polio drops? Why are they making mockery of the religion?
The Taliban have a set of austere religious beliefs seen as mediaeval by liberal Pakistanis, including a ban on women education and vaccinations against polio.
Health workers are attacked regularly because the Taliban see vaccines as a Western plot to sterilise Muslims.
“Polio drops are not a vaccine against the disease,” AzamTariq, another Taliban official, told reporters alongside Shahid as he clutched prayer beads in his hands.
“It is a campaign to damage Islam,” he said.
Pakistani Taliban demand 'Sharia' as peace talks falter - DAWN.COM
Taliban's anti-polio campaign
Just in three countries of the world the polio virus exists unfortunately Pakistan is among them. Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan are one of the countries in which children are suffering from polio. Recent terrorist attack on polio vaccine teams in Karachi and Khyber Pakhtuan Khawa in which 5 women and 1 male polio team member were killed. This incident has created serious concerns about the success of Polio campaign in our country. All the security agencies and law enforcement agencies are failed to catch the terrorists who fled instantly after killing the polio team members. The target killers’ gun fired on polio workers at different places of Karachi and Khyber Pakhtuan Khawa on Wednesday. Now the polio teams are really scared about their safety. The day by day increasing attacks on polio teams are a serious threat against polio virus eradication. These incidents are a setback for the polio root out virus campaign. The WHO and UNICIEF strongly condemned the attack on polio workers in Pakistan and said those who were killed during polio eradication campaign were working selfless for the betterment of Pakistani children. These attacks once again give boost to the negative news about Pakistan. Such type of attacks has proven that Pakistan is one of the unsafe countries of the world. How shameful situation it is for us that life-saving and health incentives providing teams are not save in Pakistan. According to survey of WHO in the present year 3 cases of polio are reported in different areas of Pakistan.
The most disappointing thing is that the ratio of polio cases in Pakistan is more than Afghanistan. 153 cases were reported last year according the reports of WHO. There are some forces that are against polio vaccine campaign these forces are actually polio free Pakistan. Few conservative people also have created confusion in the minds of people living in backward areas about polio vaccine drops. Taliban has imposed ban in north and South Waziristan on the polio vaccine drops. To save the children of Pakistan from disability polio vaccine are mandatory polio vaccine is health saving. To save the incoming generation from disability Govt. of Pakistan has to provide security to polio vaccine teams.
Terrorist attacks make difficult Pakistan’s anti-polio campaign - Defend Pakistan
Taliban kills five women aid workers in Pakistan as they administer polio vaccine
The Pakistani authorities have postponed an anti-polio drive in parts of the country's northwestern tribal belt after the Taliban banned vaccinations in their strongholds, claiming the campaign was a cover for espionage.
The Pakistani government's anti-polio campaign began nationwide on Monday but it was not able to kick off in the restive northwestern region of Waziristan.
Islamabad said the three-day polio eradication campaign would target 34 million children countrywide under the age of five.
Pakistani health officials said last week that at least 160,000 children in North Waziristan and 80,000 in South Waziristan would be affected if polio drops were not given to them.
Vaccination problems have led to a rise in polio cases in Pakistan. Last year, Pakistan recorded 198 cases of the disease - the highest number in a decade. Polio is also endemic in neighboring Afghanistan.
The Taliban threat
The Taliban control many parts of Pakistan's northwest
The authorities said they were postponing the campaign in Waziristan after the Taliban leader Hafiz Gul Bahadur banned inoculations, claiming the drive was similar to a hepatitis vaccination program run by the imprisoned Pakistani doctor Shakeel Afridi, which allegedly helped the CIA find al Qaeda's former chief Osama bin Laden.
Bin Laden was eventually killed by the US Special Forces in his Abbottabad hideout last year in May.
Earlier this year, a Pakistani court sentenced Dr Afridi to 33 years in prison after charging him with treason.
Pakistani officials said on Monday that the fighting between the Taliban warlord Mangal Bagh and government troops also made it difficult to run the campaign in the Khyber district of the north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province.
"The campaign has been postponed in North and South Waziristan, and the Bara (district) of Khyber," said Mazhar Nisar, the head of the polio monitoring cell at the prime minister's secretariat.
"Anti-Islamic campaign"
Shahnaz Wazir Ali, an adviser to Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, told DW that the Dr Afridi episode had made it difficult for the authorities to conduct this campaign.
"People think that agents like Dr. Shakeel Afridi work in polio immunization teams, and that might put their lives at risk," he said, adding that the anti-polio campaigns did not involve blood and DNA tests.
US officials have been putting pressure on Islamabad for Afridi's release
Ali told DW that the anti-polio campaign was not anti-Islam, as propagated by some groups, and was merely the need of the hour.
Karachi-based journalist Nusrat Amin told DW that anti-progressive forces in countries such as Pakistan had often opposed campaigns that were aimed at improving people's lives.
"Successive governments have always succumbed to tribal pressures, so it doesn't surprise me if the government chose to postpone the drive," said Amin.
For his part, Wajahat Malik, an Islamabad-based social activist and filmmaker, told DW that "the polio eradication campaign has lost its credibility in Pakistan which is rife with conspiracy theories," since the Dr Afridi affair.
Malik also said that the Pakistani state not only had no writ in North Waziristan, but its presence in the whole of the tribal belt was nearly non-existent.
"The Taliban rule most of the tribal areas of Pakistan. Even in the 'tribal agencies' that have supposedly been cleared of militants, there is no government to be seen on the ground."
Pakistani Taliban say 'No' to polio drops | Asia | DW.DE | 16.07.2012
The Taliban have a set of austere religious beliefs seen as mediaeval by liberal Pakistanis, including a ban on women education and vaccinations against polio.
Health workers are attacked regularly because the Taliban see vaccines as a Western plot to sterilise Muslims.
“Polio drops are not a vaccine against the disease,” AzamTariq, another Taliban official, told reporters alongside Shahid as he clutched prayer beads in his hands.
“It is a campaign to damage Islam,” he said.
Pakistani Taliban demand 'Sharia' as peace talks falter - DAWN.COM
Taliban's anti-polio campaign
Just in three countries of the world the polio virus exists unfortunately Pakistan is among them. Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan are one of the countries in which children are suffering from polio. Recent terrorist attack on polio vaccine teams in Karachi and Khyber Pakhtuan Khawa in which 5 women and 1 male polio team member were killed. This incident has created serious concerns about the success of Polio campaign in our country. All the security agencies and law enforcement agencies are failed to catch the terrorists who fled instantly after killing the polio team members. The target killers’ gun fired on polio workers at different places of Karachi and Khyber Pakhtuan Khawa on Wednesday. Now the polio teams are really scared about their safety. The day by day increasing attacks on polio teams are a serious threat against polio virus eradication. These incidents are a setback for the polio root out virus campaign. The WHO and UNICIEF strongly condemned the attack on polio workers in Pakistan and said those who were killed during polio eradication campaign were working selfless for the betterment of Pakistani children. These attacks once again give boost to the negative news about Pakistan. Such type of attacks has proven that Pakistan is one of the unsafe countries of the world. How shameful situation it is for us that life-saving and health incentives providing teams are not save in Pakistan. According to survey of WHO in the present year 3 cases of polio are reported in different areas of Pakistan.
The most disappointing thing is that the ratio of polio cases in Pakistan is more than Afghanistan. 153 cases were reported last year according the reports of WHO. There are some forces that are against polio vaccine campaign these forces are actually polio free Pakistan. Few conservative people also have created confusion in the minds of people living in backward areas about polio vaccine drops. Taliban has imposed ban in north and South Waziristan on the polio vaccine drops. To save the children of Pakistan from disability polio vaccine are mandatory polio vaccine is health saving. To save the incoming generation from disability Govt. of Pakistan has to provide security to polio vaccine teams.
Terrorist attacks make difficult Pakistan’s anti-polio campaign - Defend Pakistan
Taliban kills five women aid workers in Pakistan as they administer polio vaccine
- Four women aid workers gunned down in the southern city of Karachi and another killed in a village outside the north-west city of Peshawar
- Aid workers were administering polio jabs as part of 3-day vaccination drive
- Taliban claim the campaign to immunise children is a cover for U.S. spies
Taliban kill five women polio aid workers in Pakistan as they administer vaccines to children | Mail Online
The Pakistani authorities have postponed an anti-polio drive in parts of the country's northwestern tribal belt after the Taliban banned vaccinations in their strongholds, claiming the campaign was a cover for espionage.
The Pakistani government's anti-polio campaign began nationwide on Monday but it was not able to kick off in the restive northwestern region of Waziristan.
Islamabad said the three-day polio eradication campaign would target 34 million children countrywide under the age of five.
Pakistani health officials said last week that at least 160,000 children in North Waziristan and 80,000 in South Waziristan would be affected if polio drops were not given to them.
Vaccination problems have led to a rise in polio cases in Pakistan. Last year, Pakistan recorded 198 cases of the disease - the highest number in a decade. Polio is also endemic in neighboring Afghanistan.
The Taliban threat
The Taliban control many parts of Pakistan's northwest
The authorities said they were postponing the campaign in Waziristan after the Taliban leader Hafiz Gul Bahadur banned inoculations, claiming the drive was similar to a hepatitis vaccination program run by the imprisoned Pakistani doctor Shakeel Afridi, which allegedly helped the CIA find al Qaeda's former chief Osama bin Laden.
Bin Laden was eventually killed by the US Special Forces in his Abbottabad hideout last year in May.
Earlier this year, a Pakistani court sentenced Dr Afridi to 33 years in prison after charging him with treason.
Pakistani officials said on Monday that the fighting between the Taliban warlord Mangal Bagh and government troops also made it difficult to run the campaign in the Khyber district of the north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province.
"The campaign has been postponed in North and South Waziristan, and the Bara (district) of Khyber," said Mazhar Nisar, the head of the polio monitoring cell at the prime minister's secretariat.
"Anti-Islamic campaign"
Shahnaz Wazir Ali, an adviser to Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, told DW that the Dr Afridi episode had made it difficult for the authorities to conduct this campaign.
"People think that agents like Dr. Shakeel Afridi work in polio immunization teams, and that might put their lives at risk," he said, adding that the anti-polio campaigns did not involve blood and DNA tests.
US officials have been putting pressure on Islamabad for Afridi's release
Ali told DW that the anti-polio campaign was not anti-Islam, as propagated by some groups, and was merely the need of the hour.
Karachi-based journalist Nusrat Amin told DW that anti-progressive forces in countries such as Pakistan had often opposed campaigns that were aimed at improving people's lives.
"Successive governments have always succumbed to tribal pressures, so it doesn't surprise me if the government chose to postpone the drive," said Amin.
For his part, Wajahat Malik, an Islamabad-based social activist and filmmaker, told DW that "the polio eradication campaign has lost its credibility in Pakistan which is rife with conspiracy theories," since the Dr Afridi affair.
Malik also said that the Pakistani state not only had no writ in North Waziristan, but its presence in the whole of the tribal belt was nearly non-existent.
"The Taliban rule most of the tribal areas of Pakistan. Even in the 'tribal agencies' that have supposedly been cleared of militants, there is no government to be seen on the ground."
Pakistani Taliban say 'No' to polio drops | Asia | DW.DE | 16.07.2012
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