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A policeman was killed in a shootout of unknown assailants on Monday morning in the northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The incident took place in Khyber district at around 9:20 am local time, where a policeman on duty was targeted under the Polio Vaccination Campaign. Sources said that the attackers ran away from the spot by snatching the policeman’s submissin gun.
No group has taken responsibility for this attack yet. However, sources indicated that the activities of terrorist groups, including groups associated with banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, have increased in the region. According to the report of news agency Xinhua, the police laid siege to the area and started investigating the attack.
Pakistan with Afghanistan remains one of the world’s last two polio-sustainable countries. There has been a worrying bounce in the cases of polioovirus in the country, 73 cases of this crippling disease have been reported in 2024.
In the last few years, questions have been raised on the continuous failure of the Government of Pakistan in handling the spread of polio viruses in the country, especially in the disturbed provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Balochistan, where polio vaccination campaigns were not fully accepted. Even health workers were targeted.
Pakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Sunday launched the anti -nationwide anti -polio campaign for the year 2025, which confirmed his government’s determination to completely eliminate polio disease from South Asian country.
< p style ="text-align: justify;"> The vaccination campaign, which runs from 3 February to 9 February, aims to save the future and health of millions of children of the country, Pakistani Prime Minister while addressing the inauguration ceremony said that polio teams said that polio teams were remote areas across the country to eliminate the disease. And will reach the villages, it is expected that the teams will successfully fulfill the big national responsibility using their full energy.
Sharif further said that last year there were a total of 73 cases of polio in the country, which came up as a big challenge and also got a shock. He said that so far only a new case has come up this year.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), polio is a highly infectious disease caused by the virus. It invades the nervous system and can cause complete paralysis in a few hours. Its early symptoms are fever, fatigue, headache, vomiting, neck stiffness and organs pain.
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