Pakistani actor Fawad Khan has been booked by the local administration in Lahore, after he refused polio drops to his children, it has been reported.<\/p>\n
A case was registered against the superstar actor today after an anti-polio team was stopped from administering vaccines to his children.<\/p>\n
The case has been filed at Faisal Town. About six people, including Khan, were booked under the charge.<\/p>\n
Reports say that as many as four cases were filed at the Faisal Town police station, and two more at the Model Town station.<\/p>\n
The development is rather worrying, as it comes at a critical juncture of Pakistan’s fight against polio.<\/p>\n
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These Are the Highest Paid Pakistani Actors<\/a><\/p>\n According to the\u00a0spokesperson of Prime Minister’s Polio taskforce Babar Bin Ata:<\/p>\n \u201cWe have seen active transmission in Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Quetta, Peshawar, Bannu, Killa Abdullah and Pishin.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n It should be noted that the\u00a0first National Polio Campaign of 2019 started from January 21st this year. It aimed at vaccinating more than 8 million children under 5 years of age during a three day period. Polio workers went door to door to administer the polio vaccine to children.<\/p>\n As per DC Lahore:<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/babarbinatta\/status\/1098220663314280449?s=19<\/p>\n About 10 polio cases were confirmed in Pakistan last year. In 2017, the number of polio cases was 7, while in 2016 it was 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pakistani actor Fawad Khan has been booked by the local administration in Lahore, after he refused polio drops to his children, it has been reported. A case was registered against the superstar actor today after an anti-polio team was stopped from administering vaccines to his children. The case has been filed at Faisal Town. About six people, including Khan, were […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":217626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2199,1293],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-217625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-lollywood"},"wps_subtitle":"This can't be true, can it?","img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/fawad-khan-364x205.jpg",364,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/fawad-khan-758x569.jpg",758,569,true],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/fawad-khan.jpg",1024,768,false]},"author_name":"Samir Yawar","categories_name":["Featured","Lollywood"],"title_text":"Fawad Khan Gets Booked for Refusing Polio Drops to His Children","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=2199,1293&exclude=217625","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217625"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=217625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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