QUETTA: The militant organisation Jundullah on Friday claimed responsibility for the deadly attack on anti-polio campaigners in Quetta in which four vaccinators were killed and three wounded.
Commander Ahmed Marwat, who introduced himself as the spokesperson for Jundullah, told a foreign news agency correspondent in Dera Ismail Khan via telephone that the group was responsible for the killings.
“They were Yahood-o-Nasara, western Jews agents, and such attacks will continue on polio workers in the future,” he told the reporter of Mashaal Radio in Dera Ismail Khan.
The targeted attack on the polio team's vehicle took place on the Eastern Bypass area near Quetta on November 26, where the polio teams were carrying out an emergency campaign. New Saryab Police Station about been informed about the campaign.
A senior police official at the police station said the polio workers started their vaccination campaign without waiting for security personnel – assigned for their safety – to arrive.
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Yahood-o-Nasara only? The Hunud must feel so left out.
action should be taken by the ruling government and perpetrators should be brought before the court of law must be prosecuted.
I have never asked the question before, but why are these militants killing polio workers? I can understand that militants could have hangups about many things, but killing health workers is very cowardly.. I am a little suspicious about some medicines, but have certainly received the polio vaccine, and do not know anyone who has not.
People who risk their lives to vaccinate the children are the TRUE heroes of the Nation.
Actually they were Pakistani Muslim's trying to help Pakistani children avoid a terrible but preventable disease. Pakistan should eliminate these thugs ... or at least let Iran do it for them.