Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only two countries where polio remains endemic due to religious extremism and conspiracy theories.

Gunmen on motorcycles shot a polio worker and one of the police officers escorting him during a vaccination campaign in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, police reported. The attack took place in ...

In a renewed push to eradicate polio in Sokoto State, the state government, in partnership with UNICEF, on Friday launched the second round of the Outbreak Response (OBR) vaccination campaign ...

Before vaccines and public health triumphs, polio was the thing that kept parents up at night. During its peak from 1948 to 1955, the disease swept through towns across America, hitting children ...

Doctors note that only one in 200 polio carriers displays signs of paralysis, making detection difficult without laboratory examination of stool specimens. “Immunisation remains the most ...

This marks the sixth polio case reported from KP in 2025 and the 12th nationwide, according to a statement released by the National Institute of Health's (NIH) Regional Reference Laboratory on Friday.

The Taliban issued a glowing eulogy for Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, the group’s second emir, to mark the ninth anniversary of his death in a US airstrike. However, the group failed to address ...

A ban on smartphones in schools issued by Taliban authorities in southern Afghanistan came into force, students and teachers confirmed on June 18, over concerns of "focus" and "Islamic law." The ...

Launched in March 2021, just months before the withdrawal of US troops and the Taliban's return to power, Radio Begum is part of the Begum Organisation for Women, a Paris-based NGO founded by ...

The Taliban suspended chess — during its first iteration of rule, and now, because it's "a means of gambling," the sports minister Atal Mashwani told the French news service, AFP.