LAHORE – Sub-continent’s heartthrob Fawad Khan was booked for refusing polio vaccination drops for his children on Wednesday.
The ‘Khoobsurat’ actor has been named in a first information report (FIR) registered at Faisal Town police station, Lahore along with five others.
Spokesperson of Prime Minister’s Polio taskforce, Babar Bin Ata detailed that according to Deputy Commissioner Lahore, the driver of Fawad Khan initially misbehaved with the team following which his family misbehaved.
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Mr. Fawad is our pride, I request him to allow teams to vaccinate the child, Atta stated in his tweet.
In another tweet, Atta detailed that Fawad wanted to get his daughter immunised from The United Kingdom.
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The development comes at a time when the government has ramped up efforts to administer polio drops to the children as eight cities of the country have been identified to be a source of active transmission.
“We have seen active transmission in Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Quetta, Peshawar, Bannu, Killa Abdullah and Pishin,” said spokesperson of Prime Minister’s Polio taskforce Babar Bin Ata.
Pakistan, Nigeria and Afghanistan are the only three countries across the world to have been still battling with Polio.
Prime Minister Imran Khan is actively involved in the anti-polio drive as he recently lauded a valiant worker from Swat who was captured in a video wading through snow to administer polio drops to the children at far off places; in recognition of their services, PM Khan invited the polio workers to PM House to applaud them.
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During the meeting with the workers, the premier also discussed strategies to keep the scourge of polio at bay.
The fifty-second footage of the polio worker, widely viewed across the globe as the view-counter clocked at around 670 million clicks in just two days, showed the determination of the field teams to make the country free of Polio.
