Oral Polio Vaccination (OPV)

PESHAWAR

Taliban Show Patients No Mercy

By Ashfaq Yusufzai
Akbar Shah was sitting with his sick wife in the gynaecology ward of the Agency Headquarters Hospital in Bajaur Agency, a division of northern Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), when a bomb ripped through the facility, scattering patients, doctors and medical supplies.

The Politics of Polio in Pakistan

By Ashfaq Yusufzai and Zofeen Ebrahim
The murder of nine health workers vaccinating children against polio in Pakistan’s northwest cities of Peshawar and Charsadda in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, and its southern port city Karachi, have elicited shock and outrage.