EFTA Document EFTA01761566

From: Terje Rod-Larsen Sent: Monday, May 6, 2013 9:41 AM To: '[email protected]' Subject: Fw: Fwd: i am trying indirectly to to get reaction from Taliban to this From: Andrea Pfanzelter To: Terje Rod-Larsen; Jeff Epstein [email protected]> Sent: Mon May 06 04:43:13 2013 Subject: Fwd: i am trying indirectly to to get reaction from Taliban to this Begin forwarded message: From: Nasra Hassan <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]» Date: May 6, 2013, 10:37:21 GMT+02:00 To: Andrea Pfanzelter <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]», Bettina Kemp <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]», <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]» Cc: Terje Rod-Larsen < > > Subject: i am trying indirectly to to get reaction from Taliban to this ISLAMABAD: A child has contracted polio for the first time in Pakistan's militant-infested tribal belt since the Taliban banned vaccinations a year ago, a UN official said Monday 6 May."The new case has been detected in North Waziristan where we had been denied access in June last year," the World Health Organization's senior coordinator for polio eradication in Pakistan, Elias Durry, told AFP. Tribesmen in North Waziristan, Pakistan's most notorious stronghold of Taliban and Al-Qaeda linked militants, endorsed the Taliban ban and stopped authorities from vaccinating children under a nationwide campaign."This has been the first case since we were stopped from vaccinating children in the region last year," Durry said. The Taliban alleged that the campaign was a cover for espionage. "We are worried because this new case comes as an example of a bigger impending outbreak of disease in the region," the WHO official said. Durry said the United Nations and the Pakistani government are working together to reach out to the children in North Waziristan. EFTA_R1_00066414 EFTA01761566