Community worker assisting with polio campaign in Pakistan shot, killed

In a statement on Saturday, the World Health Organization and UNICEF said "a local community worker who helped an anti-polio campaign in Pakistan has been shot and killed in Karachi -- days after two of its staff were injured in a shooting in the city," the Associated Press reports (7/21). According to the WHO/UNICEF joint statement, Muhammad Ishaq was killed in the Gadap town area on Friday evening" (7/21). "The United Nations condemned the killing ... on Friday," the U.N. News Centre writes, noting, "Mr. Ishaq had worked with the national polio eradication effort as a Union Council Polio Worker for several months, helping to plan and implement vaccination campaigns to protect vulnerable children against the disease" (7/22).