Ulema of Karachi have recommended that government should administer polio drops to children after due consensus with Ulema, making the scheme more trustworthy for masses.
Condemning the brutal attack on a volunteer polio team, in which 4 women were killed, the chairman of Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC), Maulana Allama Tahir Ashrafi and others told ONLINE that masses must let polio drops be administered to their infants, as it is a mandatory medical requirement.
“However government and related National, international bodies should discourage, avoid using NGOs, especially like those of Shakeel Afridi charged with abetting America in ‘Osama Hunt’, leaving a deep mistrustful watermark on other NGOs”, he advised.
Maulana Mufti Naeem, while citing polio drops as a condition for many visas for Islamic countries, recommended seeking edicts from Ulema in order to pacify any active resistance from masses.
Maulana Walizar lambasted government’s indifference to terrorist activities and said that one major concern of masses towards polio drive emanated from their mistrust of government’s use of expired medication.
Ulema for consensus before administering of polio drops
