ISLAMABAD (PAN): A Pakistani girl activist, shot in the head by Taliban militants in the northwestern valley of Swat last week, was flown to the United Kingdom for medical treatment on Monday, the military said.
KABUL (PAN): The second round of the autumn polio vaccination drive was launched across the country, where 26 positive cases were registered last year, an official said on Sunday.
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): The governor of southern Kandahar province on Sunday asked the militants not to hamper a three days anti-polio campaign, covering 1.3 million children in the southern zone.
KABUL (PAN): The United States on Thursday reiterated its offer to provide transport and medical treatment for a teenage Pakistani girl who was seriously wounded in a Taliban attack in the northwestern valley of Swat on Tuesday.
LASHKARGAH (PAN): A large number of children are suffering from malnutrition in the southern province of Helmand, with scores under treatment at Bost Hospital, officials said on Sunday.
KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai has said his government would make every effort possible with available resources to completely eradicate polio from Afghanistan.
KABUL (PAN): Indian and Afghanistan cricket teams on Tuesday joined forces to appeal to parents to immunize their children against polio and eradicate the crippling disease from the region.
