Re: Polio virus - travel restrictions imposed on Pakistan
oh jiyalay bhai jaan, aankhayn kholo, PTI se nafrat ki patti utaro, report says about NWaziristan and SWaziristan.
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Seriously with such journalists its no wonder our people are so confused. I have been traveling with a WHO "Yellow card" for vaccines since 2004. Its a requirement for countries that have yellow fever and various other diseases that require you to prove you have a vaccine. Its is a requirement for all of Africa, most of Latin America and for some parts of Asia.
Its not a travel restriction. Its the fact that you need to show your WHO vaccine card.
Re: Polio virus - travel restrictions imposed on Pakistan
oh jiyalay bhai jaan, aankhayn kholo, PTI se nafrat ki patti utaro, report says about NWaziristan and SWaziristan.
These people will never understand yaar
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Travelers to Punjab to show polio vaccination certificates
LAHORE: People traveling to Punjab from other provinces of Pakistan will now have to present polio vaccination certificates.
Health Adviser to Punjab Chief Minister Khwaja Salman Rafique told DawnNews on Tuesday that, after polio cases recently surfaced in Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, there was a risk of the crippling virus traveling into Punjab.
Rafique said that polio vaccination counters would be set up at all airports in Punjab within the next two days. He said that those who refuse to be administered polio drops will not be allowed to enter the province without showing polio vaccination certificates.
Polio vaccination teams aided by the police will be posted at 41 entry points from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to Punjab and all entrances from Sindh at the border in Rahim Yar Khan.
All children entering the province will be administered polio drops if they do not show vaccination certificates.
The Punjab government’s decision comes a day after the World Health Organisation imposed strict travel restrictions on Pakistan, Syria and Cameroon, warning that the crippling disease has re-emerged as a public health emergency.
The virus currently affects 10 countries worldwide and is endemic in three countries including Pakistan.
Earlier today, the federal health ministry announced that it was setting up mandatory polio immunisation points at all international airports in the country in response to the WHO’s recommendations.
“Special measures will include establishing mandatory immunisation counters on all airports, border crossings and seaports for all travellers,” said ministry spokesman Sajid Ali Shah.
Source
Almost always we need some kind of humiliation to do something. The WHO had to finally arrive at the conclusion that Pakistan would not get serious unless an extreme step is taken. And guess what, they got it absolutely right.
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Ladies and gentlement, Roshan Pakistan
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No one has given such a report like fake people of PTI .
50 cases so far this year, 39 in fata, 8 in kpk (four each in Peshawar and bannu) and three in Karachi.
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What is embarrassing is that we have crippled children because we are unable to eradicate a disease the rest of the world has. Not the travel ban
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Polio , Taliban & Taliban Khan
After restriction to travel to Punjab
Taliban Khan should not allow Punjabis to travel to KPK
**Ho jaiay aik dharna is bat par
**آئندہ ماہ انسداد پولیو مہم میں امام کعبہ بھی شرکت کریں گے، وزیر مملکت برائے صحت](http://www.express.pk/story/251846/)
Re: Polio virus - travel restrictions imposed on Pakistan
Travelers to Punjab to show polio vaccination certificates
LAHORE: People traveling to Punjab from other provinces of Pakistan will now have to present polio vaccination certificates.
Welcome to the Pakistan of PMLN, where Nawaz Sharif is the PM of the Punjab.
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A big reason for polio in Pakistan is fata, which is federal domain.
KP has bigger share of problem in the pie because of population. Like it or not, I think it should be made mandatory to have polio-free certificate even when moving between provinces.
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KP has bigger share of problem in the pie because of population. Like it or not, I think it should be made mandatory to have polio-free certificate even when moving between provinces.
The real issue is FATA. NWA has over 35 Polio cases this year, and Bannu which is adjacent to it has 4. Same is the case with Peshawar (4 cases) which also borders Khyber. The federal government should also play its role in curbing the menace.
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http://www.dawn.com/news/1105171/who-says-it-is-satisfied-with-steps-taken-by-pakistan
For our dear American supporters. Please note what the WHO states about the CIA Vaccine programme and its impact on the polio vaccine campaign.
Re: Polio virus - travel restrictions imposed on Pakistan
yes - blame it on amreeka, no blame on those who decided to shelter the world's most wanted terrorist among the civilian population.
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Who here appears to be “American supporters”?
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It shows his fascination with KPK and wish to go round-robin to blame KPK/PTI/IK, you can’t blame it on Fed (PMLN) govt no matter how hard you try 
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yes - blame it on amreeka, no blame on those who decided to shelter the world's most wanted terrorist among the civilian population.
WHO said it had an effect. So did the NGOs that no longer take USAID funding. But I guess the guys doing the actual work are wrong.
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no one is saying it didnt have an effect. the blame mostly lies on the brilliant agency that chose to use its civilian populace to hide bin laden.
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Polio in Pakistan: Pariah state | The Economist
A COUPLE of weeks ago Pakistan completed an ambitious assault on the polio virus. This is a country where many people entertain a widespread conspiracy theory that vaccinating for polio is a Western plot to curb Muslim fecundity. Thugs from the Pakistani Taliban have targeted and killed health workers, and in late 2012 the UN suspended its anti-polio efforts right across the country.
**But alarmed by how Peshawar had become the largest “reservoir” of the disease in the world, officials set out to banish it from the north-western city’s crowded, squalid streets. They reckoned they needed to vaccinate 760,000 children, giving them drops on a certain day every week for 12 weeks. Some 8,000 health workers hit the streets each weekend, accompanied by around 5,000 police to protect them.
It was a success. In a country not known for its organisational prowess, large numbers of children were vaccinated, no one was killed and the city’s immunity was significantly boosted.
****Despite Peshawar’s performance, Pakistan continues to underperform in the fight against a terrible disease that can kill or permanently disable its young victims. On May 5th the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced serious alarm over a major global outbreak of the disease: 74 cases reported so far this year, in eight countries. **It called on Pakistan, along with Cameroon and Syria, to require all residents to be vaccinated for the disease before travelling abroad. The Peshawar strain has already cropped up around the Middle East. All the more mortifying for Pakistan is that in March India was declared polio-free. Five years ago India accounted for nearly half of all the world’s infections.
Pakistan has seen a sharp increase in polio cases this year: 59, compared with six cases in the same period in 2013. Nearly all of those were in or close to the tribal areas of North Waziristan and South Waziristan, borderlands near Peshawar where the Taliban is strong and government rule minimal or non-existent. Hardly any children have been vaccinated there.
In those badlands the government is currently pinning its hopes on peace talks with the Pakistani Taliban, but they are unlikely to go anywhere. The prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, is deeply reluctant to back a military campaign to regain control of North Waziristan, the Taliban’s main stronghold, in part because he fears that it will suck violence into Pakistan’s heartland.
Mr Sharif’s national polio co-ordinator, Ayesha Raza Farooq, is attempting to make progress all the same. She says the government is now working on “firewalling” the tribal areas, with checkpoints where children crossing into the rest of Pakistan can be vaccinated. Still, just two years ago the world seemed tantalisingly close to eradicating polio for good. Pakistan’s trouble with its militants means it is going to take longer.
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Imran?s stance on polio vaccination ?sets him apart? - Pakistan - DAWN.COM
**ISLAMABAD: To a young, polio-stricken man from Battagram, Imran Khan’s stance on polio immunisation is what sets him apart from the rest.
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It is his support for this stance that brought Sardar Ali to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) anti-rigging rally at D-Chowk, Islamabad.
**“Though I have some reservations about Imran Khan’s rhetoric on electoral rigging, I believe he is better than others in the country,” he said.
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The 26-year-old, from the Battagram district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), said he was not a PTI activist, but had joined the rally to voice his anger against the ruling PML-N government, which has failed to address the basic problems of the people of Pakistan.
**“How can we sit in our homes when hours of load-shedding, growing inflation and a worsening law and order situation have paralysed our lives,” he questioned.
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“All major political parties, including Imran Khan’s PTI, should be aware that the entire nation is disappointed… They [politicians] have to perform… otherwise people will not rely on them in the next election.”
Ali currently lives with his brother at the Fauji Colony in Pirwadhai.
“Due to a shortage of public vans today, I got a lift from a biker from Pirwadhai to Double Road, after which I began walking on my crutches,” he told Dawn at the Faizabad entry point, where he joined his cousin, Mohammad Zaib.
Instead of waiting for a lift, both youngsters kept walking towards D-Chowk. “I hope someone will give us lift to the venue… otherwise we will reach there on foot, but we can’t waste time waiting for a lift,” said Zaib.
Talking about his affliction, Ali said he was five years old when he was struck by polio.
**“Had I been immunised, my left leg could have been saved,” he said, and requested that parents around the country immunise their children against the disease.
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“I love Imran Khan because of his bold stance to eradicate polio,” he said and added that those attacking polio workers are doing an injustice to humanity.
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is the restriction on paki passport or travelling from pakistan?