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When healers are the targets
Wazīrābād :: Pakistan | 5 months ago
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The murder of eight polio vaccination workers during 48 hours in Pakistan has all the hallmarks of a Taliban operation: coordinated, ruthless and monstrous. The attacks have succeeded in shutting down an anti-polio campaign in Pakistan's largest city
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More than 3.5 million Pakistani children miss polio vaccine: WHO
Lahore :: Pakistan | 5 months ago
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More than 3.5 million Pakistani children missed out on polio vaccination this week in a campaign overshadowed by the deaths of nine immunisation workers, a UN official said Friday. The Muslim-majority nation of 180 million people is one of only three
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PML-Q wants end to drone attacks
Peshawar :: Pakistan | 5 months ago
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Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid has asked the government to take immediate steps for stopping drone attacks and military operations in Federally Administered Tribal Areas and announce rehabilitation plan for internally displaced persons. It also called
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2 polio workers escape attack
Multān :: Pakistan | 5 months ago
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Two women polio workers escaped unhurt when unidentified persons opened fire on them in Shah Faisal Colony on Thursday. Multan SSP (Operations) Gohar Nafees confirmed the attack on lady health workers Khalida and Aasia. However, he added, that the
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Polio eradication will not be beaten
Karāchi :: Pakistan | 5 months ago
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The shooting victims are among the thousands of health workers and volunteers including members of Pakistan's 151 Rotary clubs who are committed to saving children by stopping the transmission of polio in Pakistan, one of three countries where the
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Targeting of Health Workers in Pakistan Condemned
Karāchi :: Pakistan | 5 months ago
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Regardless of who is responsible for the recent escalation of attacks against health workers in Pakistan, the targeting of medical personnel has created a situation in which both patients and medical workers are at risk of losing their lives while
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TIMESCAST: Health Workers in the Cross Hairs
Karāchi :: Pakistan | 5 months ago
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Preview of Second Presidential Debate Debates and the Power of Live Event TV Preview of the Vice-Presidential Debate A Look at Fall Television Democrats React as the Race Tightens More L.G.B.T. Characters on Television TimesCast Tech October 3, 2012
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Pakistan reports 9th death in polio team attacks
Peshawar :: Pakistan | 5 months ago
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Pakistan Another victim from attacks on U.N.-backed anti-polio teams in Pakistan died on Thursday, bringing the three-day death toll in the wave of assaults on volunteers vaccinating children across the country to nine, officials said. Hilal Khan,
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Female Vaccination Workers, Essential in Pakistan, Become Prey
Peshawar :: Pakistan | 5 months ago
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Bangash/Associated Press A Pakistani woman administered polio vaccine to an infant on Wednesday in the slums of Islamabad...After militants stalked and killed eight of them over the course of a three-day, nationwide vaccination drive, the United
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Pakistan: Authorities Happier Closing Down Polio Campaign
Peshawar :: Pakistan | 5 months ago
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STM-273-2012 December 19, 2012 A Statement from the Asian Human Rights Commission Pakistan: The Authorities Are Happier Closing Down The Polio Campaign Rather Than Taking Action Against The Killers Of The Health Workers Six health lady workers and
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