{"id":1611,"date":"2026-02-09T16:33:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2026-02-09T16:33:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:33:50","slug":"polio-teams-attacked-at-2-spots-in-lahore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/?p=1611","title":{"rendered":"Polio teams attacked at 2 spots in Lahore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Polio teams were attacked at two separate locations in Lahore during the recently concluded national anti-polio campaign, raising concerns over the safety of frontline health workers despite large-scale vaccination success across the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Incidents of violence were reported in Lahore\u2019s Harbanspura and Shahdara areas. In Harbanspura, eight people, including three women, allegedly assaulted a polio team during door-to-door vaccination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to police, the team in-charge of Union Council 44, Nadeem Ashraf, along with his staff, was tortured during the incident. Harbanspura police station registered a case following the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A separate incident took place in Chaman Colony, Shahdara, where a polio team administering anti-polio drops was targeted. According to the FIR, Naeem\u2019s wife Maria and her children allegedly beat the polio workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A case was registered under various sections at Shahdara police station on the complaint of polio in-charge Arifa Tahir. Despite the violence, anti-polio drops were administered in the area along with the team, as stated in the FIR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police confirmed that cases have been registered in both incidents and investigations are ongoing. Authorities reiterated that attacks on polio workers would be dealt with strictly under the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Health officials stressed that such incidents threaten public health efforts and endanger workers performing critical national duties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polio teams were attacked at two separate locations in Lahore during the recently concluded national anti-polio campaign, raising concerns over the safety of frontline health workers despite large-scale vaccination success across the country. Incidents of violence were reported in Lahore\u2019s Harbanspura and Shahdara areas. In Harbanspura, eight people, including three women, allegedly assaulted a polio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1613,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions\/1613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}