New experience brought happiness: BSF Jawan Kitaab Singh
Mangaluru: The Election Commission has brought various forces from outside the state besides the state police to conduct peaceful voting in the DK district. Among them are jawans of BSF (Border Security Force), working in the district.
Of these, three BSF personnel are on duty at the polling booth at a government high School in Bantwal Taluk.
Speaking to reporters on Saturday morning, BSF jawan Kitaab Singh, who is a native of Haryana and currently serving in New Delhi, said "protecting border is not the only service of the country. Rather, working on election duty is also a service to the country. There is a much difference between the environment of Delhi and Mangaluru. But we are not upset by this. Here people are good. They are co-operating in every possible way they can. District officials have also provided us all the facilities."
For the first time, I am doing election duty, and it has given me a new experience," Singh added.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
