All three cases – all of them polio type-1 – were reported from the war affected Khyber Agency where polio eradication campaigns have been affected by the security situation,
According to the National Institute of Health (NIH), the children affected by polio have been identified as 18 month old Abdul Rauf from Aka Khel, Meri Khel village; eight month old Saliha from the Milward area, Miran Talab village and 11 month old Mohib of the Ghundai area, Karol Khel Bakar Abad village.
The NIH further added that all three children diagnosed with the crippling disease had not received any dose of polio vaccines since campaigns could not be launched due to the bad security situation.
The Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) is leading with 107 reported cases of children being affected with polio virus followed by Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa with 25 cases, whereas Sindh has 11 cases, Balochistan has two and Punjab has reported one case in the ongoing year.
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Continuing prevalence of Polio in Pakistan is the inevitable outcome of Pakistan’s obsession for boxing above her weight class and nurturing an outsize military in order to seek parity with India leaving limited resources for carrying out Polio vaccination which is near 100% effective in immunising against the Polio virus.
Seeking parity with India by gorging on shiny new eye candy weapon systems, maintaining the Generals, Marshalls and Admirals of the Military in the princely Mughal style they are used to and strutting the world stage as the “Sole Islamic Nuclear Power”, will as former Prime Minister Z.A. Bhutto put it require Pakistan “Eating Grass”.
The solution is thus rather straight forward. Pakistan needs to accept that she is India’s inferior.
The big question that then remains is will Pakistan make the rational choice and junk the braggadocio of attempting to seek equality with India? Or will it accept the inevitable consequence of stunted development entailing Pakistan’s civilians figuratively “Eating Grass” and wallowing in disease that can be eradicated with a simple vaccine?