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Anti-polio campaign postponed in Karachi’s Baldia Town

KARACHI: The Sindh government has postponed its anti-polio campaign in Karachi’s Baldia Town area, a day after eight persons were killed in a firing...

Free nutrition camp at Fatima Memorial Hospital

LAHORE: A free nutrition camp was held by the School of Nutrition in collaboration with Fatima Memorial Hospital and Jahanara Memorial Trust at the...

Charsadda blast kills seven including six policemen

PESHAWAR: At least seven persons including six police men were killed while nine others including two policemen sustained injuries in a bomb blast near...

Sindh suspends anti-polio drive

KARACHI: The Sindh government on Tuesday suspended the anti-polio drive across the province, hours after a polio team including two women were killed in...

Polio team attacked in Karachi’s Qayyumabad, three including 2 women killed

KARACHI: Unknown assailants opened fire on a polio vaccination team in Qayyumabad area of Karachi on Tuesday morning, killing three persons including two women. The...

WHO declares Peshawar as world’s largest reservoir of polio

ISLAMABAD: Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, is the world’s largest reservoir of endemic polio viruses, the World Health Organization (WHO) said...

Polio worker killed in Khyber Agency

PESHAWAR: A polio worker was shot dead by unknown gunmen in the Ghundi area of Khyber Agency’s Jamrud Tehsil on Saturday. Jehangir Azam Wazir, the...

Imran kicks off anti-polio drive, urges Taliban not to attack polio workers

PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Wednesday urged the Taliban not to attack polio workers and let the government run a vaccination...

PM orders to withdraw hike in medicine prices immediately

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday directed the authorities concerned to withdraw the recent increase in medicine prices immediately, terming it as unacceptable. In a...

Eleven teachers abducted during anti-polio campaign released

PESHAWAR: Eleven school teachers, who were abducted last week by the militants during the anti-polio campaign from a private school in Sipah area of...

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