S. WAZIRISTAN: In order to sabotage the anti-polio campaign, that started in the region on Monday (9th Sept, 2024), miscreants attacked a police van by means of a remote-controlled bomb, injuring 6 cops and 7 civilians here at Kir Kot Road in the Wana Rustam Bazar.

While one gravely wounded was transported to D.I. Khan, the remaining dozen have been shifted to the Wana’s District Headquarters Hospital. According to details, 480 personnel have been deployed to protect 297 polio teams. Militants believe that Dr. Shakil Afridi, disguised as a member of hepatitis vaccination team, played the key role to get DNA of OBL’s family enabling CIA locate and eliminate him in Abbottabad. That’s why they attempt to target such workers whenever possible.

For instance, the Militants gunned a polio immunisation program’s official dead and injured a policeman in Bajaur area on 19th of January, 2024 by opening fire on the vehicle they were travelling in. The slain Dr. Abdul Rehman, who was working as the coordinator of the Polio Miscommunication Program in Bajaur, was coming from Khar’s District Headquarter Hospital when his car came under attack. Militants are told that the unfaithful (kafirs) are using the drops to sterilise Muslims.

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