Anti-polio Campaign Ban In Pakistan

Pakistani authorities will try to persuade militants in a northwest tribal area to lift a ban on anti-polio vaccination teams imposed in protest at US drone strikes, officials said on Wednesday. Local warlord Hafiz Gul Bahadur on Saturday banned the anti-polio campaign in North Waziristan, a Taliban and al-Qaeda-infested region bordering Afghanista...

A powerful Pakistani Taliban faction has said it will not allow an anti-polio campaign to be conducted in its stronghold of North Waziristan tribal region as long as US drone strikes continue in the area. The group led by commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur distributed a pamphlet yesterday that announced the ban on the government's polio vaccination campa...

Pakistani authorities will try to persuade militants in a northwest tribal area to lift a ban on anti-polio vaccination teams imposed in protest at US drone strikes, officials said on Wednesday. Local warlord Hafiz Gul Bahadur on Saturday banned the anti-polio campaign in North Waziristan, a Taliban and al-Qaeda-infested region bordering Afghanista...

A powerful Pakistani Taliban faction has said it will not allow an anti-polio campaign to be conducted in its stronghold of North Waziristan tribal region as long as US drone strikes continue in the area. The group led by commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur distributed a pamphlet yesterday that announced the ban on the government's polio vaccination campa...