Militant attacks and suspicion stemming from misinformation are hampering Pakistan's battle to eradicate polio, but teams of ...

But Islamabad has frequently blamed the Taliban government in neighbouring Afghanistan for ... On Tuesday, a policeman was killed in an attack on a health office that manages door-to-door polio ...

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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, ...

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.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Militants attacked a health center used in an ongoing anti-polio campaign in northwestern Pakistan ...

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 ...