Polio shots given to 37m children

Over 37 million children up to the age of five have been vaccinated during the first three days of the national anti-polio drive amid tight security arrangements across Pakistan, National Emergency Operations Centre said on Thursday. Polio drops have been administered to 20.8 million children in Punjab, over 7.4 million in Sindh, 6.1 million in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 2.1 million in Balochistan and 6,89,000 children in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir during the first three days of the campaign. Despite tight security cordon, unknown gunmen targeted two polio teams in Bajaur and Lakki Marwat districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northwest Pakistan on the first day of the anti polio drive, killing four people, including two policemen guarding polio teams.