Man behind 'Peshawar polio drama' arrested

PESHAWAR: The key person behind the defamation of anti-polio drive in Khyber Pakhtunkhawa was arrested by police on Tuesday. 

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.

As per details, police in an immediate action against the perpetrators, nabbed Mohammad today.

Earlier today, the spokesman of polio eradication in Pakistan, Babar Atta, said in a tweet that police have lodged an “FIR against 12 individuals who were behind the Peshawar Polio Drama.”

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.

He can be heard asking the children to lie down on the stretcher, following which all the children, standing on their feet till moments ago, start falling on the hospital bed.

When one of the children raises his head, he is again told by the man in the video to keep his head down and pretend. The children otherwise seem to be totally fine in the video.

Peshawar was gripped in panic Monday morning as rumours spread like a wildfire that the anti-polio vaccine had caused children to fall ill and faint in several areas of the city.

It was reported that at least 700 schoolchildren fell sick after polio vaccination in Peshawar causing an attack on a hospital in city by angry mob.