Taliban Bans Polio Vaccination

• Polio breaks out amid militant threats in Pakistan

  Syed Wali desperately wants to immunize his three young children against polio but fears the Islamic militants who banned the vaccine from this remote area in northwest Pakistan will catch him if he tries to smuggle it in.

• Second child contracts polio in Pakistan's Waziristan

  A second child has contracted polio in a restive Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border after the Taliban banned vaccinations there nearly a year ago, a UN official said Thursday.

• First polio case in Pakistan's Waziristan since Taliban ban

  A child has contracted polio for the first time in Pakistan's militant-infested tribal belt since the Taliban banned vaccinations a year ago, a UN official said Monday.

• Pakistan to talk with militants on anti-polio ban

  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...

• Pakistani Taliban bans polio vaccination

  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...