Taliban calls for truce in Pakistan on day polio workers are attacked

Andrew Buncombe
Independent.co.uk
March 1, 2014

The Pakistan Taliban has announced a month-long ceasefire in order to try and revive stalled peace talks after reportedly being told the government would not mount operations against it. It came as at least 12 people were killed in an attack on polio workers.

A Taliban spokesman said the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had made clear that it would not be targeted in military operations. There has been mounting speculation Pakistan’s army was poised to launch a major operation in North Waziristan after a series of air raids on militant targets.

“The senior leadership of the Taliban advises all subgroups to respect the Taliban’s call for a ceasefire and abide by it and completely refrain from all jihadi activities in this time period,” spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said in a statement, according to the Reuters news agency.

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Syria"s Polio Threatens Europe, Warn Doctors

(Newser) – Polio might just be looking at a comeback tour, thanks to the Syrian civil war. There’s a significant risk that the now-rare disease could spread from Syria to Europe, as refugees seek asylum there, a group of German scientists warned in The Lancet today. The danger is that many people may not know they’re carrying the disease; only about 1 in 200 people infected develop symptoms. The vaccine commonly known in Europe exacerbates this, because it’s good at preventing symptoms but only partially effective at preventing infection.

It could take almost a year of “silent transmission” before the outbreak is detected, “although hundreds of individuals would carry the infection,” they warn. Simply vaccinating Syrian refugees is “insufficient,” they argue, pressing for a broader approach that might include testing sewage near Syrian refugee settlements, Reuters reports. But the news isn’t all disease and death in Syria; inspectors yesterday reported that they have thus far destroyed all but one of the 23 chemical weapons sites the Assad regime pointed them toward, the New York Times reports.

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