{"id":575,"date":"2021-09-19T11:12:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T11:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=575"},"modified":"2021-09-19T11:12:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T11:12:35","slug":"policeman-guarding-polio-team-killed-in-nw-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/asia\/paksitan\/policeman-guarding-polio-team-killed-in-nw-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Policeman guarding polio team killed in NW Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Pakistan and Afghanistan are only 2 countries in the world where polio still exists<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PESHAWAR, September,19 (AA): Gunmen on Sunday killed a policeman guarding polio vaccinators in northwestern Pakistan, police reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident \u2013 the latest in a string of attacks targeting vaccinators \u2013 took place in Kohat in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkwa province, which borders neighboring Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khalid Suhail, a city police chief, told reporters that suspected militants riding a motorbike targeted a polio vaccination team on the outskirts of Kohat, killing a constable assigned to protect the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The members of the vaccination team remained unhurt, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was no immediate word of responsibility for the attack. However, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a consortium of several militant groups in Pakistan, has long been targeting vaccination teams across the country, claiming the vaccination campaigns are a Western conspiracy to sterilize children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government has launched a fresh anti-polio vaccination campaign across the province in an attempt to eradicate the crippling disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No fresh polio case has been reported for some time in this South Asian nuclear country, which hopes to eradicate polio by the end of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only two countries in the world where polio virus still exists, and the country remains under a polio-linked travel restriction imposed by the World Health Organization (WHO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2014, the WHO made it mandatory for all people traveling from Pakistan to carry a polio vaccination certificate.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan and Afghanistan are only 2 countries in the world where polio still exists PESHAWAR, September,19 (AA): Gunmen on Sunday killed a policeman guarding polio vaccinators in northwestern Pakistan, police reported. The incident \u2013 the latest in a string of attacks targeting vaccinators \u2013 took place in Kohat in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkwa province, which [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[58,247,65,246],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paksitan","tag-afghanistan","tag-attack","tag-pakistan","tag-polio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}