KOHAT two-day training workshop for ulema

KOHAT The government will arrange a two-day training workshop for religious scholars to remove misconceptions about polio vaccination among them.

The in-charge of Kohat branch of National Research and Development Foundation, Saad Riaz, said in a press release that they had decided to hold a training workshop for ulema so that they could persuade the parents to administer anti-polio drops to their children.

The workshop would be held at Liaquat Memorial Hospital on Dec 8. The decision for the training of the ulema was taken at a meeting chaired by the in-charge of the NRDF. The meeting was attended by Qari Akbar Ali Shah, Maulana Zainul Abideen and other prominent clerics.