By: Asem Mustafa
PESHAWAR: Some unknown assailants opened fire on a polio team in Kohat martyring an escorting policeman.
Reportedly, a polio team in Kohat came under the hail of fire on the eve of 18 September. As a result, a policeman deputed to provide security to the immunization team was martyred.
Another case of disturbing polio eradication program happened on 20th September when two polio workers were threatened at gunpoint in the Noor Colony area within the City Police Station.
Vaccinator, Shehnaz Akhtar, lodged a complaint with the police stating that while she was returning to the office vaccinating children along with a co-worker, Nighat Bibi, when two motorcyclists wearing masks intercepted the jewelry and a ring from her at gunpoint.
Similarly, A Peshawar-based polio worker and activist Nazish Karim who is also affiliated with an international o received death threats and abductions from unknown individuals, after which she lodged a written complaint to t Nazish while talking to The Dayspring said that she had received a threat letter from a local TTP Taliban group in her campaign visits to Waziristan to terrify her not to do polio work.