PESHAWAR, Pakistan: A radical Pakistani religious scholar known as the “Father of the Taleban” has issued a fatwa urging parents to immunize their children against polio and other fatal diseases, adding that vaccinations comply with Islamic law. The edict by Maulana Sami-ul-Haq, who heads the hard-line Dar-ul-Uloom Haqqania seminary, comes more than a year after the Pakistani Taleban banned polio immunization following a fake CIA vaccination program meant to help track Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden. The ban has led to a surge in polio cases in Pakistan that threatens worldwide efforts to eradicate the infectious crippling disease, which is also endemic in Nigeria and Afghanistan. Taleban fighters have launched regular attacks on medical workers and security personnel resulting in at least 25 deaths since the June 2012 prohibition on inoculation. But according to a statem...