A nationwide immunization campaign backed by UNICEF and partners kicked off this month in Pakistan, one of the last two ...

While the TTP is an ally of the Afghan Taliban who seized power in Afghanistan in 2021, it's a separate group. Polio is an infection caused by a virus that mostly affects children under 5.

Bhutta, who has worked extensively in the region, attributes the resurgence of polio cases in Pakistan to the spillover of the virus from Afghanistan. "It has spread to all districts of Pakistan.

The police officer was killed in Jamrud, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, local police official Jamshed Khan said. More than 200 polio workers and police assigned ...

As part of his efforts to make Pakistan a polio-free country, Prime Minister Shehbaz ... the crippling disease in the neighbouring brotherly country Afghanistan would end. He appreciated all ...

"The constable died instantly at the scene." Pakistan and neighbouring Afghanistan are the only countries where polio is endemic and militants have for decades targeted vaccination teams and their ...

After being endemic in over 125 countries at the time of GPEI’s launch, Pakistan and Afghanistan ... as wild poliovirus free. Nigeria was able to eliminate wild polio, thanks partly to the ...

Pakistan held its first polio vaccination drive of 2025, sending workers door-to-door to vaccinate 45 million children. A spike in cases in 2024 was a setback for the eradication of the disease.

This is a locator map for Pakistan with its capital, Islamabad, and the Kashmir region. (AP Photo) A health worker, left, ...