Pakistan’s goodwill ambassador for Polio Eradication and daughter of President Asif Ali Zardari Asifa Bhutto Zardari again made it clear that polio was a deadly disease and the government was trying its best to make Pakistan polio free.
Asifa expressed these views while talking to BBC (Urdu Service).
“Diseases know no borders and mankind has a collective responsibility towards children of the world and together we must strive to ensure that tomorrow’s world is free of this scourge,” she said.
She said the government would not rest until the scourge had been completely eliminated.
She also called upon philanthropists to come forward and help in the drive.
To a question, Asifa said she was honored to be the Pakistan’s Goodwill Ambassador for Polio Eradication, adding that her mother had started the polio campaign and she wanted to follow in her footsteps.
She said polio was a menace and contacts were important so that she could interact with people and ensure that it could be prevented.
In another question, she said the president inaugurated National Polio Emergency Plan in 2011, adding that polio was a crippling disease and continued to threaten children. “Unfortunately Pakistan is among the few countries, which are still not completely polio free.”
Govt trying best to rid country of polio: Asifa
