PESHAWAR (The Thursday Times) — Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ke Tank zile mein na maloom musallah afrad ne polio vaccination team par firing kar di aur chaar workers ko aghwa kar liya, police ne bataya, aise waqt mein jab taqreeban 2 crore 40 lakh bachchon ko vaccine dene ki hafta bhar ki qaumi muhim shuru hui.
Hamla Sheikh Attar union council ke aik gaon mein hua. Police ne bataya ke musallah afrad chaaron workers ko kisi na maloom maqam par le gaye. Fori taur par yeh maloom nahin ho saka ke is ke pichhe kaun hai ya workers ko kahan rakha gaya hai.
Aik alag waqiye mein, musallah afrad ne Lower South Waziristan ke Azam Warsak ilaqe mein polio team ke do arkan ko aghwa kar liya aur baad mein riha kar diya. Zaraye ne bataya ke zimmedar afrad ka taalluq pabandi shuda dehshatgard giroh Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) se tha.
Yeh muhim 97 muntakhib zilon mein 8 November tak jari rahegi, jis mein paanch saal se kam umr ke bachchon ko polio drops pilaye jayenge. Itwar ko National Emergency Operations Centre ne Khyber zile mein polio ke naye case ki tasdeeq ki, jo Bara ilaqe ki 13 maheene ki bachchi ka hai. Is saal ke chhe cases Khyber Pakhtunkhwa mein rahe hain.
Pakistan aur Afghanistan aakhri do mulk hain jahan polio ab bhi endemic hai. Vaccination teams aur unhein tahaffuz dene wali police escorts sooba ke janoobi zilon mein baar baar hamlon ka nishana bane hain.
