ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is set to launch an emergency vaccination campaign next week after the detection of the first polio case in the capital in 16 years, reported German news agency dpa.The case comes amid a resurgence of polio in other parts of the country, officials announced on Saturday.More than 33 million children under the age of 5 would be vaccinated in the door-to-door drive starting Monday, polio chief Ayesha Raza said, as the total new cases this year rose to 17.An 8-year-old boy from a rural neighbourhood of the capital Islamabad was crippled by the wild polio virus, said Anwarul Haq, Pakistan’s national coordinator for the disease.The south-western province of Balochistan that bor
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