Two polio workers killed in NW Pakistan

Relatives are mourning two polio workers shot dead by suspected militants on Sunday in Pakistan's north-western Swabi district. Gunmen shot dead two male health workers who were providing vaccinations in Swabi's Kandar village. No group said it ...

Suspected militants shot and killed a woman polio vaccinator and injured another in an attack in Peshawar city of northwest Pakistan today, prompting the World Health Organisation to suspend its vaccination campaign. Two gunmen riding a motorcycle ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan Two health workers giving polio vaccines to children were shot dead in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, prompting the World Health Organisation to suspend its operations in the area. Anti-polio workers started being attacked after a ...

A female polio worker has been shot dead and her colleague wounded in northwest Pakistan, prompting officials to consider suspending the immunisation programme. Two attackers opened fire on the UN-backed team on the edge of the city of Peshawar, ...

gunmen shot to death a policeman protecting a team of female polio workers during a U.N.-backed vaccination campaign in a village of northwestern Pakistan. Police officer Mohammed Nabi Khan says another police officer was wounded in Wednesday's attack in the ...

(CNN) -- Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari condemned the Sunday killings of two polio vaccination volunteers in the country's northwest, calling their slayings "cowardly and inhuman." The workers were shot to death while visiting homes in Khyber ...

KARACHI, May 28, (Agencies): Attackers shot dead a lawyer and his two sons aged 12 and 15 in Karachi on Tuesday in a suspected sectarian attack, police said, the latest in a wave of violence against Pakistan's Shiite Muslims. The men, on a ...

What a pity that saviours who toiled in cities, towns and remote villages in an attempt to save the coming generation from crippling diseases like Polio are being ruthlessly killed. The extremists which are behind this crime against humanity seem to ...

Two gunmen riding a motorcycle fired at the vaccinators at Badabher area on the outskirts of Peshawar while they were administering polio drops to children. A female vaccinator was killed instantly, police and witnesses said. The injured woman was ...