Operation Against Polio: A Historic Initiative In Pakistan By PTI KPK Government

 In the recent fuss of operation or dialogue in Pakistan, meanwhile the government of the most affected province KPK has taken a historic initiative for the eradication of Polio by mobilizing more than thousands of its own party workers who vaccinated almost half a million children on the very first day of this historic drive. Volunteer services  for more than twelve thousands party workers were acquired by the ruling party in KPK ,Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf, to achieve the target. It was a very daring step by the party and its own workers because of the recent series of attacks on Polio workers which killed many. So after these attacks no official workers were ready to carry on vaccination drive. In such a disastrous situation regarding Polio campaigns, PTI chairman Imran Khan took it as a challenge and vowed to eliminate the disease through his innovative programme ‘Sehat Ka Insaf’.

The main points of “Sehat Ka Insaf” programme include free vaccination against nine vaccine preventable diseases, including tuberculosis, polio, diphtheria, pertusis, tetanus, hepatitis ‘B’, haemophilus influenza, pneumonia and measles besides distribution of public health messages at the doorsteps of people.

Pakistan began the anti-polio campaign in 1994 when the World Health Organisation declared global emergency against the vaccine-preventable childhood ailment. Due to aggressive vaccination, the disease was eradicated from the entire world, but the virus still exists in three countries, including Pakistan, Nigeria and Afghanistan.

The UN agencies, especially the Unicef and WHO which provided technical assistance to Pakistan, failed to put brakes on the disease because of the unrealistic strategies they pursued. Now, many health experts are saying that this decision of Imran Khan will be very effective.

Under the programme, the health department will also hold free medical camps where vouchers for free checkups and free medicines will be provided to people. Each child will receive vitamin A drops. Each family will receive hygiene kit, including soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes, towel, water container, etc. According to PTI General Secretary, Mr.Jahangir Tareen, approximately 3000 families visited Peshawar Sehat Ka Insaf special medical camps and received free medical treatment and medicines.2500 hygiene kits have also been distributed.               

I hope that this initiative of PTI government will achieve its 100% results.Hats off to PTI.              

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Dialogue or Operation: Stagnancy Continues

 A recent avalanche of attacks, killing hundreds of people has opened the flood gates of a widening guerrilla war in Pakistan.Taliban forces have unleashed a string of devastating attacks in last two weeks, in an attempt to shake the nation. The string of attacks over the last 10 days have shown the impact of the killing of Tehreek-e-Taliban chief, Hakimullah Mehsud, in a US drone attack in November last year.Interior Minister Choudary Nisar and PTI Chief Imran Khan  termed this as a drone attack on possible peace talks between the Pakistan government and TTP.The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) ruled out the possibility of peace talks with Pakistan as Mullah Fazlullah, the leader of the Swat Taliban, was named the new chief .Mullah Fazalullah is considered as a ruthless hardliner who is mainly against Pakistan Army.
With the recent terror wave,country is in complete chaos.Everyone started questioning the silence,inability and inefficiency of Prime Minister Mr.Nawaz Sharif and demanded government to take immediate action against terrorists.Government officials were of the view that both options – negotiation or military operation,are tough because the rival is not a visible force or party.Prime Minister who at last broke his silence and arrived in National Assembly after almost six months of break,however gave peace another chance or may be the last chance and formulated a four member committee  – comprising of his Advisor on National Affairs Irfan Siddique, veteran journalist Rahimullah Yusufzai, former ambassador and expert on Afghanistan affairs Rustam Shah Mohmand and former ISI official Major (Retd) Amir – to holds talks with the militants.He said that Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan would assist the committee and he himself will supervise.
Many analysts criticized the government as why they wasted so many months in confusion despite the fact that last APC gave full mandate to government for negotiations.Many are of the view that if this decision could have been taken earlier then things could have been much better.However better late than ever lets see what this committee can do.Mr.Raheemullah Yousafzai,one of the members of this committee claimed that he is in touch with one of the close associate of Mullah Fazalullah and is of the view that there are little hopes of any success in the talks as any new attacks from taliban can sabotage the whole process.
Many analysts demanded that these talks should be time framed and government should not adopt its policy of silence as it did in past.And If talks are failed then government should go for all out operation immediately.So the news for the people who were thinking that government is going to announce operation is that stagnancy still continues.  

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