The health ministry urged parents and guardians to protect their children from the disease,
Gunmen shot and killed a policeman deployed as a security detail for polio vaccinatorsin north-western Pakistan on Tuesday, in yet another attack on health workers
According to the lawyer, the man had kidnapped the underage young girl, kept her in his house for several days after the abduction, and raped her.
A police spokesman in Pakistan, Wajid Rasool, said the man accused of blasphemy was a tourist from the Sialkot district of Punjab.
About 21 people, including seven children, were killed when lightning struck in central Punjab province.
According to government figures, around 4.4 million Afghan refugees live in Pakistan, 1.7 million of them without valid documents.
Local reports said the incident occurred in the province of Balochistan as the community came together to observe this significant religious occasion.
The former premier faces charges of theft of expensive gifts he received from other countries during his time in office between 2018 and 2022.
The five-day campaign will target more than six million children under the age of five in 39 districts of the country.
The death toll in Pakistan from this season’s monsoon rains since mid-June has risen to 1,061, along with 1,575 others injured.
