A police officer working on Pakistan’s first polio vaccination drive of the year was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen ...

Pakistan on Monday kicked off its first anti-polio drive of 2025 after witnessing a sharp increase in polio cases last year.

A Pakistan police officer travelling to guard polio vaccinators was shot dead Monday, police said, on the first day of a ...

The Pakistani Taliban claimed the killing of a police officer as he travelled Monday to guard polio vaccinators on the first day of a nationwide immunisation effort after a year of rising cases. The ...

Health workers vaccinate a 2-year-old child during a polio vaccination campaign in January 2015 in a rural area of Tehsil Fateh Jang, Punjab in Pakistan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ CDC Global ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — After years of decline, polio is surging again in this populous South Asian nation, dimming hopes that the viral disease — eradicated nearly everywhere else on Earth ...

Wild poliovirus was almost eradicated globally two years ago, but poor conditions are causing cases to rise in Afghanistan and spill into Pakistan. https://p.dw.com/p ...

A senior World Health Organization official cautioned Wednesday that the eradication of polio in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the only countries where the paralytic virus persists, is threatened by ...

Not being able to eradicate polio primarily epitomises the failure of governance in contemporary Pakistan and the failure to meet decades-old global obligations. It also shows that our resolve to ...