“Local religious figures” are “recalcitrant” because Muslim clerics have declared the polio vaccine un-Islamic. “Vulnerable Khyber Agency: Polio volunteers pull out in wake of latest murder,” by Asad Zia for the Express Tribune, December 23: PESHAWAR: Volunteer polio vaccinators have backed away from the next immunisation drive in Khyber Agency after the murder of anti-polio … Continue reading Pakistan: Polio volunteers pull out in wake of latest jihad murder