article_snippet: Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN)Police have arrested more than 500 parents in and around the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar for not allowing more than 500 parents children to get the polio vaccine, an official said Tuesday.
article_snippet: Peshawar Deputy Commissioner Riaz Khan Mehsud told CNN that the 513 arrests took place Monday and Tuesday as part of a government campaign to administer polio vaccines in parts of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
article_snippet: polio vaccines in parts of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province will be released on bail if polio vaccines in parts of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province sign an affidavit stating that polio vaccines in parts of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province will let polio vaccines in parts of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province children get vaccinated, according to the deputy commissioner.
article_snippet: But Pakistan is an exception, according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, a public-private partnership that includes the World Health Organization and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
article_snippet: Authorities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province hope to ensure that 2.7 million children there get vaccine drops.
article_snippet: Authorities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province've learned about more than 13,000 cases in which parents have not done so since a provincial campaign began two weeks ago, Mehsud said.
article_snippet: Dr. Bilal Ahmad, a UNICEF team leader based in Pakistan, called authorities' unprecedented move a last-ditch effort to clear Polio from "cluster" zones where large numbers of families have refused to get large numbers of families children vaccinated.
article_snippet: And in June 2012, Pakistani Taliban commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur announced that polio vaccines would be banned in another Pakistani province -- North Waziristan -- because of drone strikes there.
highlights_snippet: Official: Parents who sign affidavit vowing to vaccinate Parents who sign affidavit vowing to vaccinate their children children will be released .
  