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Polio continues to cripple Pakistan as virus yet again detected across 20 sewage samplesPakistan faces a polio challenge. Poliovirus is found in sewage samples from various districts, including Islamabad. Sindh has the highest ...13 Jul, 2025, 08.46 PM IST- Pakistan records one more poliovirus case; tally reaches 13Pakistani authorities confirmed a new poliovirus case in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, raising the national count to 13 in 2025. The affected child i...27 Jun, 2025, 04.46 PM IST
- US issues advisory cautioning against travel close to India-Pak border and surrounding areasThe US has issued a travel advisory urging citizens to avoid the India-Pakistan border, Balochistan, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa due to terroris...10 Mar, 2025, 10.40 AM IST
- Pakistan reports confirmed 50th polio caseAccording to NEOC, the National Reference Lab identified the latest case involving a 20-month-old girl from Tank district in Khyber Pakhtun...19 Nov, 2024, 07.11 PM IST
- Pakistan: Four samples collected from four cities tests positive for Wild Poliovirus 1Environmental samples collected from four cities in Pakistan, including Karachi and Peshawar, have tested positive for Wild Poliovirus 1 (W...19 Oct, 2023, 12.59 PM IST
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation donates $1.2 billion for polio eradicationBill & Melinda Gates Foundation has donated $1.2 billion for the global eradication of polio, which is still cropping up in Pakistan and Af...17 Oct, 2022, 06.02 PM IST
- Pakistan reports polio case to take year's count to 13The latest case was found in the northwest province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and involved an 18-month-old boy reported to be undernourish...23 Jul, 2022, 04.29 PM IST
- Pakistan polio eradication campaign in disarray, country reports 12 new cases this yearPakistan is one of the two polio-endemic countries in the world along with its neighbour Afghanistan. The new case - a 21-month-old boy who...15 Jul, 2022, 11.32 AM IST
- Pakistan could be next polio-free nation, says WHOAttempts to eradicate the disease in Pakistan have been seriously hampered by the targeting of vaccination teams in recent years by militan...25 Oct, 2020, 07.36 PM IST
- UN Chief Ban Ki-moon condemns suicide attack near polio centre in PakistanThe attack close to the premises of a polio eradication centre in Balochistan's capital Quetta, killed at least 15 people and injured 20 ot...14 Jan, 2016, 10.25 AM IST
- Pakistan may be polio free by next year: UNICEFPakistan may be declared a 'non- endemic country for polio virus' by next year, a UNICEF health official said today.09 Nov, 2015, 10.08 PM IST
- Pakistan cancels 2015's first anti-polio campaignThe target of the SIAD campaign, which had to be held in the high-risk union councils of 54 districts, was to vaccinate 8.5 million childre...05 Jan, 2015, 04.52 PM IST
- 4 more polio cases found in Pakistan; tally jumps to 231Security is the main reason for the spread of polio virus as vaccination cannot be organised in tribal areas where Taliban still control la...30 Oct, 2014, 01.49 PM IST
- Pakistan accounts for 80 per cent of polio cases globally: WHOThe World Health Organisation in its progress report held Pakistan responsible for failing to curb the surge in polio cases.17 Oct, 2014, 02.28 PM IST
- Pakistan breaks its own record of maximum polio cases a yearA health official from said that out of eight new cases, six are from tribal areas and adjacent Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, and one each f...04 Oct, 2014, 02.44 PM IST
- Bomb kills 7 during anti-polio campaign in PakistanThe injured have been shifted to the city hospital, some 20 kilometres away from the scene of incident.07 Oct, 2013, 11.43 AM IST
- Polio strain from Pakistan a global threat: WHOPakistan is dubbed as the "epicentre" of global terrorism. Now, the terror-affected country is the hotbed of a deadly strain of polio which...22 Sep, 2011, 09.10 AM IST
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