'Keeping children away from anti-polio vaccines is terrorism'

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Minister for Information Shaukat Ali Yousafzai in strong-worded remarks, said on Tuesday that keeping children away from anti-polio vaccination is tantamount to terrorism.  

Speaking to media, he termed the spread of polio virus as a “national issue” and requested people not to make a political issue out of it.

He said if one child is paralyzed owing to the polio virus then the entire family is affected by it.

Referring to the drop scene of yesterday’s propaganda in Peshawar, Yousafzai said the conspiracy against the anti-polio drive was foiled by media.

The minister angrily asked “who would pay the price for the hospital which was torched yesterday?” to create further chaos against the polio campaign.

“Terrorism has been defeated, polio will also be defeated [in the same way],” he asserted.

Earlier today, the key person behind the defamation of anti-polio drive in Khyber Pakhtunkhawa was arrested by the police, while a First Information Report (FIR) was also lodged against 12 people for staging violent protests.

The conspiracy against the anti-polio campaign in Peshawar was exposed late night on Monday when a video of a man named Nazar Mohammad surfaced on the social media.

In the video, a man could be seen employing children to prove that polio vaccines were defected. He administers children polio drops, following which the children are asked to pretend to be fainted.