who234ISLAMABAD: The UNICEF and the World Health Organisation suspended work on campaigns against polio in Pakistan on Wednesday after a series of attacks left nine health workers dead in three days.

 

UNICEF spokesman Michael Coleman told AFP the two organisations halted polio work in Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces on Tuesday after attacks in Karachi and Peshawar, but extended the suspension nationwide after fresh killing on Wednesday.

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2012
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