Washington: United States (US) and United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday condemned attacks on health care activists across two provincial capitals of Pakistan, Karachi and Peshawar.
Gunmen in Pakistan killed six health workers at the start of a nationwide polio vaccination drive, officials said Tuesday, highlighting resistance to a campaign opposed by the Taliban.
Four women were killed in less than an hour in seemingly coordinated attacks in Karachi on Tuesday, a day after a man working on a local government-World Health Organization (WHO) project was also shot dead in the city, police said.
A sixth worker, also a woman, was killed on Tuesday in the northwestern city of Peshawar, which lies close to the tribal areas, a haven for the Taliban and other militants who ordered a ban on polio vaccinations in June.
Giving a routine press briefing to media at state department, the US State Department spokesperson said that the attacks on health care workers were unacceptable in any part of the world.
“Our sympathy is with the aggrieved families of the victims,” Victoria Nuland added.
Meanwhile, UN Secretary General also summoned Pakistan’s ambassador to UN Masood Khan to discuss the situation.
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