Further details of the confirmed detection of poliovirus in the environmental sample collected from Lahore indicated that the virus detected in Gulshan Ravi locality is similar to the poliovirus found last November in Afghan province of Nangarhar. According to Federal Health Minister Abdul Qadir ...

[image: Two cops, polio vaccinator shot dead in Pakistan's North Waziristan] PESHAWAR – Three people were killed after a team of anti-polio vaccinators was ambushed in Datta Khel area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s tribal district of North Waziristan, which has been a hotbed of poliovirus this ...

ISLAMABAD – Microsoft cofounder and philanthropist Bill Gates on Thursday attended the meeting of National Task Force for Polio Eradication, on the special invitation of Prime Minister Imran Khan. Gates arrived in Islamabad earlier today to meet Prime Minister Imran Khan, President Alvi and ...

PESHAWAR – Unidentified gunmen again attacked law enforcers providing security for polio vaccination workers in northwest Pakistan, killing another cop in two days. This is the second attack in two days where policemen escorting the polio teams have been targeted. Deputy Commissioner Tank ...

Great news for Lahorites as their city is once again going to feature in the list of polio-free cities after environmental samples collected to detect the presence of poliovirus in them have tested negative, reported 24NewsHD TV channel on Monday. DC Lahore Mudassir Riaz Malik has confirmed the ...

KARAK - A police personnel accompanying the Anti-polio team embraced martyrdom after unidentified gunmen opened fire on them in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Takht-e-Nasrati area of Karak district today. According to the reports, the martyred policeman was providing security to a team of polio health ...

ISLAMABAD- Khartoum, Sudan is preparing a mass vaccination campaign against polio after an outbreak, the UN said Friday, days after the declaration of the eradication of wild poliovirus in Africa.                  ...

ISLAMABAD- The Senate resumed its session at the Parliament House in Islamabad this afternoon with Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani in the chair. Three bills including ; “The Compulsory Teaching of Arabic Language Bill, 2020”, “The Protection against Harassment of Students in Educational ...

ISLAMABAD- Chief Minister Balochistan Jam Kamal Khan has urged the need to make collective efforts with determination for eradication of polio from the country. In a message on the commencement of Special Anti-Polio campaign in Balochistan on MOnday, he said that the healthy future of Balochistan ...

ISLAMABAD- Co-Chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates has appreciated Pakistan's success against Covide-19 despite resource constraints. According to ISPR, he was talking to Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa on telephone about Pakistan's Covid-19 response and resumption ...