Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only two countries that still have the polio virus.

Pakistan in spite of multimillion-dollar campaigns featuring well known personalities and run on all media is still now facing a resurgence of the disease and now that due to new policies of some donors aid for polio eradication campaigns might not be so freely available it will become an even more uphill task to somehow stop the spread of this disease and indeed to eradicate it altogether.

This is a really strange situation where all resources are being employed towards a simple task of dropping two drops of a medicine down the throat of a child but there are elements in our society who are so opposed to this act that they are willing to kill and even die for in order to stop this from happening.

What are their motivations is something I have wondered about over the years and if there are apprehensions why they have not been addressed openly. All we hear is that polio workers were attacked and in most cases it is the........

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