Pakistan to face travel ban if fails to control polio

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Pakistan to face travel ban if fails to control polio



* Senate committee told WHO ready to suggest ban on all Pakistanis going abroad if country fails to control polio by 2013


By Ijaz Kakakhel

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Inter Provincial Coordination (IPC), on Friday, warned that the international community had decided to ban all Pakistani going abroad if Pakistan failed to eradicate polio until 2013.
The senators termed it as an alarming situation and said that the government needed to take appropriate measures to meet the international requirement.
Senior officials of the IPC informed the committee that World Health Organisation (WHO) was ready to present a resolution against Pakistan but it was delayed due to the efforts of Pakistani ambassador in Geneva.
According to the WHO resolution, all Pakistani would be banned from going abroad after 2013, if the government failed to clear polio from Pakistan.
The official said the Pakistani ambassador informed the government of Pakistan to take measures in this regard, otherwise Pakistanis would not be allowed to go abroad.
Senator Dr Karim Ahmed Khawaja also confirmed the WHO report and urged his fellow members that the matter required efforts on emergency bases.
Senator Farah Aqil chaired the committee at the Parliament House. The committee also expressed dissatisfaction over the non-implementation of 18th Amendment in letter and spirit.
The committee said that the government had first devolved ministries and later retained most of the departments through establishing ministries in other names. The senators were of the view that there were certain forces that did not allow implementation of 18th Amendment and were creating hurdles.
Senator Kalsoom Parveen informed the committee that Balochistan had got nothing in the 18 devolved ministries and only received liabilities. She said, “Whatever we want to transfer to provinces is not transferred and what we want to retain at federal level has been transferred.” Citing the example of arms licences, she said neither the provinces nor the federal government were renewing the licences. She said, “As a tradition, the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan keep weapons for personal security.”
IPC secretary told the committee that the government had formed three committees to look into the devolution process.
The committee has decided to hold meeting with chief secretaries of all four provinces and asked them to tell what they did or did not receive under devolution process.
Senator Zahid Khan, special invitee to the committee, claimed that the 18th Amendment had not been implemented and that the federal government by establishing new ministries, retained departments of its interest.
He termed all these actions totally against the devolution process. “These all are unconstitutional and illegal and some conspirators wanted to create hurdles in the implementation of 18th Amendment,” he said.
The committee also discussed some health related issues including funding by donors to some vertical programmes and its mode of payment.

 

[Don Jaguar]

O teri!!!

Please wait let me go.

 

[tvsram1992]

Thank god polio doesnt spread through net . With out pdf is boring for many members here

 

[Avisheik]

Damn if this takes place, it will affect the pakistani economy greatly. Businessmen will not be able to conduct business, migrant workers may not be able to travel overseas to work.

 

[forcetrip]

The walls are closing in. Atleast we have our Faith to fall back on..

 

[ajtr]

Islam says remove the evil from the society.Polio is an evil so remove it .why help it to fester.In a way people who are opposing polio drive are working against the Islam itself

 

[forcetrip]

Islam says remove the evil from the society.Polio is an evil so remove it .why help it to fester.In a way people who are opposing polio drive are working against the Islam itself

Ask them how many rakaats are in zuhur and 80% of them would not know. They know what to do when they hear the azaan and that is to get to the mosque and follow what everyone is doing. Its a good and bad case senario. Short term you can take out leadership and stun them into submission by planting your own choice. Something our enemy has been doing for the past 6 years. But in the long run it has to be high doses of education and no weapons. You have to make sure they learn humility. Right now they are in Disneyland, talking about great battles with the english last century and calling themselves unconquerable. While apaches come and fish in the barrel them. Running around in fields and taking potshots at the enemy is not fighting. First thing required in a war are brains and then you need a whole lot of them working in tandem to make a net. Then next requirement is money and weapons. You can ask the enemy to come fight you at a 100 meters in daylight but unfortunately half way through the sentence you will be dead. All this has nothing to do with any religion, its just called "badkismati" that we were born to such idiot elders who were good at running small villages and just continued to do so.

 

[Don Jaguar]

Islam says remove the evil from the society.Polio is an evil so remove it .why help it to fester.In a way people who are opposing polio drive are working against the Islam itself

A greater evil named as taliban is defending the smaller evil.

 

[Fazlu]

A greater evil named as taliban is defending the smaller evil.

Why not take them out ?

 

[xyxmt]

because the ones given the responsibility to give vaccine were busy finding OBL

A greater evil named as taliban is defending the smaller evil.

yet even a greater evil in Afghanistan supporting Taliban to defend smaller evil, chain of evil must be broken.
your uncle have more than one ways to blackmail you, thats why Islam says keep good with your relatives..lol

 

[REHAN NIAZI FALCON]

thanks to USA and mr Dr afridi ...............
now people of PAKISTAN specially of tribal areas consider it an american campaign ...........

 

[Safriz]

so polio is contaigeous?
Its not...

And 'international community' is dying to enforce polio vaccine on pakistan?
This is unusual to propose travel ban for a non infectious disease...
Goes to show the strange and suspicious desperation of USA anout this polio game.

 

[Roybot]

so polio is contaigeous?
Its not...

And 'international community' is dying to enforce polio vaccine on pakistan?
This is unusual to propose travel ban for a non infectious disease...
Goes to show the strange and suspicious desperation of USA anout this polio game.

Polio is highly contagious.

Polio is a highly contagious illness that can spread easily from person to person. In fact, when a person is infected with polio, it is expected that polio transmission among susceptible household contacts will occur in nearly 100 percent of children and over 90 percent of adults.

How Is Polio Spread?

 

[karan.1970]

so polio is contaigeous?
Its not...

And 'international community' is dying to enforce polio vaccine on pakistan?
This is unusual to propose travel ban for a non infectious disease...
Goes to show the strange and suspicious desperation of USA anout this polio game.

hmmm... your hate for USA seems to be clouding your good judgement...

 

[Sashan]

Ban will not happen. Rather Pakistanis will be asked to produce proof of vaccination like yellow card(International Certification of Vaccination - proof for yellow fever vaccination) to enter certain countries.