A police officer working on Pakistan’s first polio vaccination drive of the year was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen
This is a locator map for Pakistan with its capital, Islamabad, and the Kashmir region. A police officer working on Pakistan's first polio vaccination drive of the year was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen Monday, police said.
The police officer was killed in Jamrud, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, local police official Jamshed Khan said. Though militant groups have stopped claiming attacks on polio workers and police escorting them, authorities say Pakistani Taliban and other breakaway factions of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, have been behind such attacks. The TTP is an ally of the Afghan Taliban who seized power in Afghanistan in 2021.
Ayesha Raza Farooq, the prime minister’s adviser for polio eradication, urged parents to cooperate with the polio workers to protect their children from the disease.
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