INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
PESHAWAR:The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Monday kicked off a three-day anti-polio drive which was going smoothly through out the
province but all of a sudden measure unscrupulous elements launched a malicious campaign against the vaccine, instigating the sentiments
of the locals through fake videos to lure support against the drive.During the campaign thousands of polio workers were supposed to visit
schools and madrassas to manage the oral polio vaccine to children between five to 10 years of age
But it took an interesting turn when measure children of a private school in Peshawar's Madina Colony were brought to the Maulvi Jee
Hospital on the GT Road with complaints of diarrhea, nausea and headache.The news spread like wildfire in Peshawar and panicked parents
started rushing their children to hospitals
Even the violent protesters set on fire a Basic Health Unit (BHU) in the Mashokhel village.But all this was later proved farce as Babar Bin
Atta, Focal Person to PM Imran Khan on Polio Eradication, shared the videos about the incident
In one video, a person is asking the children, obviously in sound health, sitting in a pick-up that they should act as if they are ill and
that they are being shifted to the hospital.In amuchher video, shared by the same official on social media, a person can be seen wailing
that if they don''t get their children vaccinated police arrest them and if they do, they fall ill
And in the same vein, the man instructs the boys dressed in school uniform to lie on the hospital bed and pretend to be unconscious
The kids, then, acted immediately as per the directions given by the person.The main suspect, instructing the children in the video, was
later identified and apprehended by the law enforcers as the fake and failed attempt to malign the campaign came to an end as a result of
quick response from the government.Babar Atta released amuchher video in which the prime suspect, Nazar Mohammad, was telling the policemen
The police was on a hunt to nab other persons involved in the conspiracy.TheIndianSubcontinent has not verified the content of the source
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