Militant attacks and suspicion stemming from misinformation are hampering Pakistan's battle to eradicate polio, but teams of ...

But Islamabad has frequently blamed the Taliban government in neighbouring Afghanistan ... a policeman was killed in an attack on a health office that manages door-to-door polio vaccination campaigns.

Nine people were killed, including five children, in a bombing on Friday that targeted a southwest Pakistan polio drive, ...

Three of the attackers were also killed in the exchange of fire. Militants in Pakistan often target police and health workers ...

Pakistani officials say militants attacked a health center used in an ongoing anti-polio campaign in the country's northwest, ...

which has long been a hive of violent activity including by the Pakistani Taliban. The vaccination campaign was paused in the area of the attack but continued elsewhere in Orakzai, police said.

Militants shot dead two Pakistan policemen guarding a polio vaccination team on Tuesday, officials said, as the country confronts a recent resurgence of the disease.

Also on Tuesday, militants stormed a health centre in North Waziristan, another former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in ...

Also on Tuesday, militants stormed a health centre in North Waziristan, another former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in ... campaigns against polio, claiming the vaccination drives are ...