Gunmen kill vaccinator in NW Pakistan: officials
Published — Saturday 21 December
2013
PESHAWAR: Two gunmen shot dead a health worker administering polio
drops and other vaccines to children in a restive Pakistani tribal region
bordering Afghanistan
on Saturday, officials said.
The murder took place at a
government-run dispensary in Jamrud town in the Khyber tribal district. The
gunmen ordered women and children to leave before shooting dead the vaccinator,
doctor Sameen Jan, the top health official in Khyber said.
Nobody immediately claimed
responsibility for the killing, but Taliban militants have been targeting
health workers and security personnel during vaccination campaigns.
A local administration official
confirmed the incident and said that the assailants left a note on the body
warning of dire consequences for anyone continuing to vaccinate children in
Khyber.
The attacks come despite a recent
fatwa by a prominent Pakistani religious scholar, known as the "Father of
the Taliban", who urged parents to immunise their children against polio
and other life-threatening diseases and said vaccinations were compliant with
Sharia.
Last year the Pakistani Taliban banned polio vaccinations in the tribal
region of Waziristan, alleging the campaign
was a cover for espionage.
Eradication efforts have also
suffered due to long-standing rumours that the vaccine was part of a Western
plot to sterlise Muslims.
Ansarul Mujahideen, a little-known
militant group linked to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan,
the umbrella Taliban faction in Pakistan,
has threatened opposition leader and former cricket hero Imran Khan for
criticising attacks on polio vaccination teams.
Khan on Wednesday declared polio
workers as soldiers of Islam and said those attacking them were not doing any justice
to humanity, Islam or Pakistanis.
Pakistan is one of three countries in the world where polio remains
endemic and efforts to stamp it out have been badly affected by attacks on
health workers inoculating children. Polio is also endemic in Afghanistan and Nigeria.
According to the World Health Organization, Pakistan
recorded 72 cases of polio this year compared with 58 in 2012.
New Delhi last week announced it would require citizens from Pakistan and other polio-affected nations
travelling to India
to take a mandatory vaccination for the disease at least six weeks prior to
their departure.
Pakistan
Marc
Grossman was a special representative for Pakistan, and a
director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank).
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envoy to Pakistan for the Barack Obama administration, a director at the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
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chairman for the Foundation to Promote
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Yong Kim was a guest at his 2013 wedding, and a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone.
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Hood Foundation, the NAACP Legal
Defense & Educational Fund, and the Sundance Institute.
Kim
Campbell was a board member for the International
Crisis Group, and a trustee at the Salk
Institute.
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established in the 1960s by Jonas Salk, M.D., the developer of the polio
vaccine.
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Jonas Edward Salk (October 28,
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discovered and developed the first successful inactivated polio vaccine.
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Chicago, a trustee at the Sundance
Institute, and Arianna Huffington
was a guest at her 2013 wedding.
Henry A. Kissinger is a friend of Arianna Huffington, a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Richard C. Holbrooke was a director at
the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), the special
envoy to Pakistan for the Barack Obama administration, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Marc
Grossman was a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank), and a special representative for Pakistan.
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