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Pak: 5 held for refusing polio vaccine for children
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
Assistant Commissioner Maria Shamooun, accompanied by a polio team, visited various areas of Sariab and 15 children of reluctant parents were administered the polio vaccine after persuasion, according to district administration, as per ARY News.
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Pak: 2 cops on security duty of polio team die in terrorist attack
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
Two police personnel who were on security duty for the polio team died in a terrorist attack in the Upper Orakzai district, ARY News reported on Tuesday.
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Pak: 2 personnel, 2 workers injured as mob attacks polio team in Balochist
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Two levies personnel and two women workers of an anti-polio campaign were injured in an alleged attack in Balochistan's Chaman, reported Dawn, citing officials.
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Pakistan: Cop escorting polio team killed in gun attack in Bannu
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Polio teams in Pakistan have repeatedly been targeted by extremist outfits, with Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) also being involved in the attacks.
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Afghanistan reports first polio death of 2023
Updated : 3 years ago IST
"In these two cases, one child is 4 years old and the other is 11. One of them lost their life and we want to start a polio vaccination campaign to prevent this disease," said Amerkhail.
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Northwest Pak's Mehsud belt saw no polio campaign for past six months: Rep
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Shahzad Baig said that 99 per cent of women in Pakistan's North and South Waziristan have not been included in the polio teams.
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Pakistan: Unidentified men open fire at polio worker, severely injured
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 3 (ANI): Unidentified armed men opened fire at polio workers in Pakistan's Mir Ali Tehsil leaving another vaccinator severely injured.
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3 killed in attack on polio team in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 28 (ANI): Two policemen and a polio worker were killed in an attack in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday, media reports citing police sources reported.
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90 pc terrorist groups operating from Afghanistan target CPEC projects: Pa
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], December 30 (ANI): Pakistan counter-terrorism department (CTD) on Wednesday said that 90 per cent of the terrorist groups operating from Afghanistan target the multi-billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects.
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Another Pak police personnel escorting polio team killed in two days
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 13 (ANI): Another Pakistani policeman was killed in an attack on a polio team in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on Sunday, the second such attack in two days.
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Pakistan cop guarding polio team killed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Tank [Pakistan], December 12 (ANI): A security personnel guarding the polio vaccination team in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was killed during an armed attack on the team on Sunday, reported local media.
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Pakistan: Policeman killed as gunmen attack polio team in Khyber Pakhtunkh
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa [Pakistan], December 12 (ANI): A policeman was killed on Saturday in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's (KP) Tank who was protecting the polio vaccination team.
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