চরবৃত্তির অভিযোগে গ্রেপ্তার এক ভারতীয়, দাবি পাকিস্তানি সংবাদমাধ্যমের - চরবৃত্তির অভিযোগে গ্রেপ্তার এক ভারতীয়

চরবৃত্তির অভিযোগে এক ভারতীয়কে গ্রেপ্তার করা হয়েছে বলে দাবি করল পাকিস্তান । পাকিস্তানের পঞ্জাব পুলিশকে উদ্ধৃত করে স্থানীয় সংবাদমাধ্যমের দাবি, ওই ব্যক্তি ভারতীয় নাগরিক ৷ তিনি চরবৃত্তির কথা স্বীকারও করেছেন ।

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Published : Aug 1, 2019, 7:21 PM IST

Updated : Aug 1, 2019, 7:27 PM IST

ইসলামাবাদ ও দিল্লি , 1 অগাস্ট : চরবৃত্তির অভিযোগে এক ভারতীয়কে গ্রেপ্তার করা হয়েছে বলে দাবি করল পাকিস্তান । পাকিস্তানের পঞ্জাব পুলিশকে উদ্ধৃত করে স্থানীয় সংবাদমাধ্যমের দাবি, ওই ব্যক্তি ভারতীয় নাগরিক ৷ তিনি চরবৃত্তির কথা স্বীকারও করেছেন । এই বিষয়ে ভারতের বিদেশ মন্ত্রকের মুখপাত্র রবীশ কুমার বলেন, "আমরা যাচাই না করে মিডিয়া রিপোর্টগুলিতে প্রতিক্রিয়া জানাই না । আমরা এ বিষয়ে পাকিস্তানের থেকে শুনিনি ।"

পঞ্জাব পুলিশ জানিয়েছে, রাজু লক্ষ্মণ নামে ওই ব্যক্তিকে গতকাল লাহোর থেকে প্রায় 400 কিলোমিটার দূরে ডেরা গাজি় খান জেলার রাখি গজ এলাকা থেকে গ্রেপ্তার করা হয় । জিজ্ঞাসাবাদের জন্য তাঁকে অজ্ঞাতস্থানে নিয়ে যাওয়া হয়েছে ।

পুলিশ আরও জানিয়েছে, লক্ষ্মণকে বালুচিস্তান প্রদেশ শহরে ঢোকার সময় গ্রেপ্তার করা হয় । এর আগে পাকিস্তান দাবি করেছিল কুলভূষণ যাদবকে বালুচিস্তান থেকে গ্রেপ্তার করা হয়েছিল ।

PAKISTAN POLIO
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Karachi, Pakistan - 23 July 2019
1. Close of baby being administered oral vaccine
2. Mid of woman kneeling next to man seated with two children
3. Close of child being administered oral vaccine
4. Close of woman colouring child's little finger with marker
5. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Javed Ahmed, Vaccinated child's grandfather:
"Islam tells us to take the necessary precautions for health. If, in doing that, we require medicines and vaccines, then we should use them. We should spare no efforts and vaccination is ideal. As for the rest, we leave all to God."
6. Mid of man putting vaccines into cooler
7. Close of vaccines being placed in cooler
8. Close of vaccines inside cooler
9. Wide of Farheen Younus collecting vaccine kit from counter in Karachi Cantt railway station
10. Wide of Farheen Younus approaching family sitting on railway station floor
11. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Farheen Younus, Polio worker:
"My younger brother had polio and died very young. That's the main reason my mother became a polio worker. My mother left the job after she witnessed an incident in which two young polio workers were killed. But she didn't stop me from working as a polio worker. Instead, she told me that vaccination drives should continue. Because those households where a child is afflicted with polio experience life and death on a daily basis."
12. Close of Farheen Younus carrying polio vaccines in cooler
13. Mid of Farheen Younus standing next to boy carrying baby
14. Close of baby being administered oral vaccine
15. Wide of Farheen Younus walking on crowded station platform
16. Wide of platform and railway tracks
17. Mid of man administering oral vaccine to child held by woman in burqa
18. Various of waiting area at National Institute of Child Health in Karachi
19. Various of doctor administering vaccine to child
20. Mid of sign in hospital (in Urdu)
21. Close of stethoscope with koala toy
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Iqbal Memon, member of provincial polio eradication advisory committee:
"The research data tells us that in an environment of developing countries like Pakistan, where enteric infections - that is GI tract infections, gastro infections - are more common, where sanitation is a problem, where clean water is a problem. And of course hygiene process is limited, and hand-washing and all. In those environments with frequent infections, about 15 time doses is what is considered adequate."
23. Mid of children walking through garbage
24. Wide of garbage strewn river
25. Mid of garbage on river bank
26. Wide of children playing in garbage
27. Wide of river bank with minaret in background
28. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Iqbal Memon, Polio expert and member of provincial advisory committee:
"Till the environmental samples are telling us that there is a poliovirus around, that's a danger sign. That is a red light. And it can only be circumvented when we are giving polio drops to everybody around, maximum number of children, who then transfer these vaccine polio viruses into the sewage and sanitation. And then, there is the survival of the fittest."
29. Various of girl wearing leg brace reading
30. Various of family in courtyard
31. Various of people walking in residential street
32. Various of people walking on main road
LEAD IN
In Pakistan, there's a renewed push to vaccinate children against polio, but health workers are facing an uphill battle.
Polio remains endemic to Pakistan, but there are widespread misperceptions that the vaccine against it causes sterilisation.
STORYLINE
Administering the polio vaccine is a simple enough procedure.
But in parts of Pakistan, a scene like this stirs controversy.
Health workers are fighting not just naturally wary parents, but also Islamic militants who claim the polio vaccine is a secret sterilisation ploy.
The memory of a fake CIA hepatitis vaccination campaign that was used as a ruse in Pakistan to find Osama bin Laden lingers.
Here in Karachi, these two children are being inoculated with the approval of their grandfather, Javed Ahmed.
"Islam tells us to take the necessary precautions for health. If, in doing that, we require medicines and vaccines, then we should use them. We should spare no efforts and vaccination is ideal. As for the rest, we leave all to God," he says.
Vaccinating Pakistan's millions of children is also a logistical challenge.
Here at the Cantt railway station in Karachi, more than a dozen officers are administering the oral vaccine.
For 21-year-old Farheen Younus, it's a relief to be able to do this without police protection.
"My younger brother had polio and died very young. That's the main reason my mother became a polio worker. My mother left the job after she witnessed an incident in which two young polio workers were killed. But she didn't stop me from working as a polio worker. Instead, she told me that vaccination drives should continue. Because those households where a child is afflicted with polio experience life and death on a daily basis," she says.
According to Emergency Polio Centre Pakistan, 70 people associated with the polio programme have been killed in the country in the past seven years. In April, three polio workers were killed in the span of one week, resulting in the suspension of a nationwide drive.
Paediatrician Professor Dr Iqbal Memon says movements between Pakistan and Afghanistan, both countries where polio is endemic, make vaccination difficult.
"The research data tells us that in an environment of developing countries like Pakistan, where enteric infections - that is GI tract infections, gastro infections - are more common, where sanitation is a problem, where clean water is a problem. And of course hygiene process is limited, and hand-washing and all. In those environments with frequent infections, about 15 time doses is what is considered adequate," he says.
He says there have been reports of 45 confirmed polio cases in Pakistan already this year, up from eight last year.
"Till the environmental samples are telling us that there is a poliovirus around, that's a danger sign. That is a red light. And it can only be circumvented when we are giving polio drops to everybody around, maximum number of children, who then transfer these vaccine polio viruses into the sewage and sanitation. And then, there is the survival of the fittest (between the poliovirus and vaccine)," he says.
For now, polio remains ever present in Pakistan, with sewage samples testing positive for the virus in 12 cities.
For some, it's already too late, like 10-year-old Aleena Ahmed.
Health workers hope cases like hers will become rarer as this vaccination programme expands.
But it's a tall order: earlier this year, authorities said they needed to immunise 39.2 million children across the country.
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