“We cannot implement house-to-house vaccination,” Jafari stated, referencing the ban imposed by Taliban authorities on polio teams over security concerns. “The program is working closely with [Taliban ...

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Nine people were killed, including five children, in a bombing on Friday that targeted a southwest Pakistan polio drive, ...

A powerful bomb attached to a motorcycle has exploded near a vehicle carrying police officers assigned to protect polio workers in restive southwest ... to fall on separatist groups and Pakistani ...

A powerful bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded near a vehicle carrying police assigned to protect polio workers in south-west Pakistan on Friday, killing nine people including five nearby children, ...

A bombing near a girls' school in western Pakistan killed seven people, including five children, in an attack targeting police guarding polio vaccinators on Friday, officials said.

Militants attacked a health center used in an ongoing anti-polio campaign in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, triggering a ...

Campaign against polio vaccinators Pakistan's hard-line extremist group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has sustained a violent campaign against polio vaccinators and security forces guarding ...

which has long been a hive of violent activity including by the Pakistani Taliban. The vaccination campaign was paused in the area of the attack but continued elsewhere in Orakzai, police said.

another former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, snatched guns from officers and warned health workers who had gathered there not to take part in the anti-polio campaign ...