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Athar Hussain / Reuters
Family members of Nasima Bibi, a female worker of an anti-polio drive campaign who was shot by gunmen, mourn at a hospital morgue in Karachi on Dec. 18.
Rehan Khan / EPA
A rescue worker ties the feet of one of the Polio vaccination workers at a mortuary.
Reuters -- Gunmen shot five health workers on an anti-polio drive in a string of attacks in Pakistan on Tuesday, officials said, raising fears for the safety of workers immunizing children against the crippling disease.
It was not clear who was behind the shootings, but Taliban insurgents have repeatedly denounced the anti-polio campaign as a Western plot.
Health officials suspended the immunization campaign in Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city of 18 million people. Continue reading.
Previously on PhotoBlog:
- Demonstrators get fired up at the chance to make their 'voices count' on Human Rights Day
- Pakistan's lone beer maker seeks overseas business
- Pakistani girls endeavor for education
Rizwan Tabassum / AFP - Getty Images
A Pakistani mother mourns over her daughter, who was killed while on the job as a polio vaccination worker, at a hospital morgue following an attack by gunmen in Karachi on Dec. 18. Gunmen on motorbikes shot dead five female Pakistani polio vaccination workers on Tuesday, police said, highlighting resistance to the country's immunization campaign. Four were killed in three different incidents in the sprawling port city and the fifth in the northwestern city of Peshawar, on the second day of a nationwide three-day drive against the disease, which is endemic in Pakistan.
Fareed Khan / AP
Pakistani rescue workers carry the dead body of a female polio worker, killed by unknown gunmen, at the morgue of local hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, on Dec. 18. Gunmen killed several people working on a government polio vaccination campaign in two different Pakistani cities on Tuesday, officials said. The attacks were likely an attempt by the Taliban to counter an initiative the militant group has long opposed.
Muhammed Muheisen / AP
Images of daily life, political pursuits, religious rites and deadly violence.
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If these people cannot stand up and rid themselves of who they know are the dangerously retarded amongst them, why should we even bother. I mean, these are usually village folk where everyone knows everyone else. Or does their religion cripple their ability to act? Like, well, maybe it did say that in the Koran.
I totally agree with you.. If they want to live in the middle ages LET THEM!!! They can also die at the rate they did in the middle ages, too.. I say GOOD RIDDANCE YOU IGNORANT RELIGIOUS FANATICS!!
it's their country let them deal with it...we're just waste'n money and lives in the middle east...place really sick...some foreign countries have undermined the whole dam place...to keep these wars going for decades...who care's what their problem is we have plenty problems here...a leader who can't lead...and can't stop spending...and can't see the corporate farse being played out on the american public...later...i got to gall-mart see what's on display...in the five finger freebee isle...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrwjiO1MCVs
I understand where everyone is coming from and I personally can't stand the Pakistani government. I hate that we give them so much money, but I think cutting all ties with them could be detrimental to our stronger allies in the region and us at home. Keep in mind that a large portion of the Pakistani government has ties to terrorist groups, and its entire intelligence community works closely with the those groups to plan terrorist attacks. For years analysts believe that it is a very volatile situation between purely politicians and other politicians linked with terrorists groups each waiting for an opportune moment to overthrow the other. Now keep in mind that this fragile government who could fall under control of terrorist organizations has disclosed the existence of 110 nukes to the U.N. and may have even more hidden. It is in the U.S.'s best interest to stay involved for now.
Ah, you see, it is the United States and the West that is the enemy! Providing vaccines. How Dare We?!
Yeah, that's sarcasm. Welcome to Pakistan, where if you get blown up by a terrorist, it is okay, as long as he was of the same faith.
Plotinus, did you even read the article, the city has 8 million people. These aren't country folks and no they don't know everyone in a city that big. Can't anyone of you see the pain in these peoples faces. Do you insult people you don't know just to insult them? Is there no compassion for people who are terrorized day in and day out? Do you see the faces on the children full of fear? You get your rocks off by seeing other people suffer? What the hell is wrong with some of you people?
They are 100% correct. This absolutely IS a Western plot. No doubt about it. Americans believe in saving lives and improving quality of life. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Taliban believes in death, destruction and dashed dreams.
First I'm going to say that I don't think we should have anything to with Pakistan. They are an ally of convience only. As long we keep giving them money they will smile and say that they are our friends. Unless it is inconvent for them.
I can understand why they would attack these aid workers though, after the doctor who gave shots to try and get DNA samples of the Bin Ladin family. They are afraid that this is just another attempt to root our enemies that they are harboring.
Good point!
Very Good Point!
Remember we are only one airline ticket away from bringing Polio back into our country.
Yup @ bondobob, thanks to the idiotic 'heroic' efforts of Jenny Mccarthy and their misguided 'vaccines cause autism' drek, we know have a sizable portion of our population susceptible to Polio.
I understand Kent, it sucks that we give them so much money. But we were giving them money before the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, so the idea of them being an ally of convenience is out the window. The reality is that the Pakistani government is at risk of falling under terrorist control and they have disclosed the existence of 110 nukes to the U.N. The U.S. stays involved to keep those nukes out of terrorist hands.
And yes, good point Kent. I was thinking about the doctor that obtained Osama's DNA when I read this article.
Its borrowed money that we are giving to Pakistan. It we are going to waste any money at all, at least waste it here and here only
These Islamists are the scum of the gutter that flows out of their Madarsas in the name of religion. That will stop only when Muslims in Pakistan will rise up, round up these ruffians and hang them. Only then ordinary people can live their lives in peace.
I wouldn't limit it to Islamists. Pretty much all religious fanatics have had their fair share of atrocities. Come to think of it, even the non-religious fanatics...
My first response - if they really don't want to be vaccinated, then let them opt out. After all, natural selection will eventually weed out the truly idiotic. On the other hand, they clearly don't want anyone else to get vaccinated, whether they wanted it or not. And furthermore, vaccination only works well when everyone is getting it. By these acts, the shooters are clearly attacking everyone else in their country and the region.
Who would want to vaccation in Packistan..
Time to go back to the 3rd grade, warren. Reading and comprehending is not your strong suit.
The Paki's are an ignorant people and do not deserve any help. They are lazy and stupid. They prefer barbarity over being civilized people. Stop giving them medicine, money, food, weapons or anything other than the back of our hands. They will screw everything around. I cannot wait until they declare the vacine is against Allah and therefore the murders of the innocent volunteers were performing their religious obligation in killing them.
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Do you actually know any Pakistanis (Paki's) or ever visited the country?
Not all Pakistani's are backward religious terrorists. Just like not all American's are bigoted racists.
No, just most. Face it, virtually everywhere Muslims get to vote, they vote for terrorists. The occupied territories, Egypt, Libya, etc.
freaking savages. we should be spraying smallpox on them.
Barbarians who kill in the name of their God have been doing this since the beginning of time...they will never learn how to be civilized until they start by teaching their ignorant children that it is NOT OK to kill...as long as the adults continue to foster their hatred for all that does not fit their religion, we will never rid this world of the killing of the innocent. Those workers who were killed are truly the heroes and ANY people who stand up to the tyranny of these barbarians should be honored by all in this world.
Everything you just said can easily fit the average American:
1. Barbarians who kill in the name of their God (pretty much every American conflict since Columbus)
2. Will never learn how to be civilized until they start by (sic) teaching their ignorant children that it is NOT OK to kill (i.e. who takes a mentally deranged kid to a shooting range in the first place, Mrs. Lanza?)
3. As long as the adults continue to foster their hatred for all that does not fit their religion (the Tea Party on any given day)
4. We will never rid this world of the killing of the innocent (maybe if we didn't launch so many drone strikes against innocent people IN PAKISTAN we could claim to be morally superior)
5. Any people who stand up to the tyranny of these barbarians should be honored by all in this world (see Chalmers Johnson's "Blowback" as to whose tyranny should be stood down, ours or theirs)
speak for yourself, im an average american and
1 im against killing altogether and certainly not in the name of god yeesh
2 i thought i was civilized got my shots and all my kids got vaccinated to, all went thru school and even college, mentally deranged kids, i was in a home for boys for 5 years and we helped mentally handicapped kids our own age always, certainly not shooting them wow
3 well hate is hard to control but to take a life? noooooooooooot
4 didnt know we were doing that one but this one i do agree with ya one of the biggest mistakes made by our military are these dumb ass drones, shoot and hope for the best is an idiots mindset and i feel its murder and someone in our military needs to serve jail time. 1 child is to many and i hear we killed quite a few. thus i say dumbass usa on that note very hard to make friends that way
5 not to sure what you are getting at on this one but i see the problem as this
everyone in the world has greed its a sickness. greed leads to hate hate leads to death . all i ever here i want i want i want
and thus the want
usa wants mineral rights and use the excuse we are helping the meek while they drone women and children duuuuuuuuuh cant quite make friends with the population that way eh?
the tali idiots and alquida dumbasses want everything with no care how they get it and use the excuse god told me to. lol whew such an intelligence, did god not give them a mouth? from what i seen and hear how they treat their own people daaaammmm stupid doesnt fall very far from that tree and im not sure why their people dont hang the lot of them must like the killing game
ya and we are all knee deep in billionaire and trillionaire cra p because they wantwantwant
you know what a good rich person would be ??? if at least they gave 50% of their riches for the poor, but ya you are right the money would never get to the poor sadsadsad
lets try love one another as you would be loved and help everyone who needs help
damm how hard is it to give??? once in a while yeesh
well you ditch the 10 commandments what do you get? and wait hell you dont even have to believe in god to believe in 10 simple sentences gaaaaaaaaaaad
though no matter what happens, what ever you do in life when you die you will be judged
then its just an eternity of hell
on a final i thank GOD ALLAH JESUS MOHOMID sorry for the bad spelling but this world is still the best thing ever, so beautiful such a present
and remember all 3 religions that are fighting all believe in ABRAHAMMMMMMMMMMM
lol such greed from governments and religious peeps that should worship the same god ABRAHAM put before them
lol oh they doooooooooo
Pakistan is rapidly sliding down the Somolia road to becoming a failed nation/state. It's people have become polarized due to the backward and stagnating religious intolence of a minority of their poplulation.
It's really time for the clear thinking people of this country to rise up and take their freedom back from those cowards (hiding under the cloak of religious purity) who try to make them toe the line through murder, hatred, fear and intimidation.
If they (the people of Pakistan) fail to do this at this critical point in their history, they have let these cowards and murderers win and they'll have nothing to look forward to but more of the same.
They really can't count on their government to do this. It really must start with each individual standing up and saying I've had enough, I won't take anymore and I want a better life for my children. A life without want, poverty, hatred, death and fear.
Again, all this can easily be said of the United States, except that we NEVER tolarated religious nor ethnic minorities in this country and our zeal towards religious fundementalism has in fact increased since our inception.
Right...let's gun down people who are trying to help rid the population of a dangerous disease....retarded!!!!!!!!!
I stand by my theory that the Taliban is made up of people who are all part of the same inbred family trapped up in those mountains.
Ignorant, bloodthirsty animals. If they were a pack of dogs we would shoot them.
Typical American response to something they don't understand are are too jingoisitically knee-jerky to try and be empathetic about: if they can't conform, shoot them like dogs.
Blowback isn't coming, its already here.
We should shoot them anyway.
I have a pretty good understanding that these people are ignorant and easily manipulated. They are reacting to BS conspiracy stories in the most violent and reprehensible manner they can. We are not dealing with thinking rational people, they are like rabid animals. What is there to empathize with?
Filthy animals
Beasts! But they can legally purchase their weapons in the US. Go figure.
Yeah, so can your average gun nut militia neo-nazi neighbor, except when they go on a terrorist-styled shooting spree we call it an isolated incidence of mental illness rather than the criminal propensity of white males to shoot through their problems.
Oh, I forgot that's not PC to say to the cultural ruling caste of the US. Its better to call all those "other" people beasts than to fess up to our own crimes as a nation, ain't it?
What are there gun laws.........ban guns right...........
Hope the perps did not use "assault weapons" because President Obama will be p -ssed off and he and the UN will take their guns away from them.
once again the fools of this country are so ignorant of progress they kill innocent people. wonder what gun control they had in Pakistan? this shooting goes to show how these people are really scum to kill innocent people. wonder if they had any gun control???
Once again, the Taliban proves they only want to kill people. Nothing else. They have no point to prove. They just like killing people.
Michael Moore says American's are murderers because we do not provide people with health insurance.... Idiots can be found anywhere....
Does anyone ever just look at Pakistan and try and guess where Zawahiri and other al-Qaida leaders properties are? I think Zawahiri may live near the Grand Trunk road and in Wah or Attock. I find it fun when al-Qaida is in the news. I wonder if it was a FBI trick to get blood or not. Karachi is probably not where Zawahiri lives and I would think he lives further away from Afghanistan then Osama did but not that far from Osama’s hideout. Also what if Zawahiri has a big tree in his yard, that sounds fun. Man I hate those people and can’t wait for Zawahiri to be found and killed or just taken in. I want to see him in jail with bars again.
It is obvious that Pakistan needs more foreign aid from the USA. We need to print more money to help them