Pakistan's Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH) Pakistan has confirmed the sixth polio case in the country from District Thatta, Sindh, according to local media reports.
Pakistan reported three new cases of polio in the country's Balochistan, Sindh, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces, bringing the total number of the disease-infected children to 21 since the beginning of this year, the health ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
Come to think of it, centuries and millennia ago, cultural ties between Rajgriha in Bihar and Roruha in Pakistan were a reality, and today, the story is dramatically and traumatically different.
The victims were taken to the People's Medical Hospital in Nawabshah, Sindh while authorities fear more injuries as the ill-fated train is said to be carrying a large number of people.
The cleric, popularly known as Mian Mithu, is notorious in upper Sindh for his alleged involvement in the forced conversion and marriages of minor Hindu girls.
As infections continue to rise across flood-hit Pakistan, at least nine people have been reported dead of viral diseases in Sindh on Monday, ARY News reported citing the data of the Ministry of Health.
Three to six months will be required to drain out rain and floodwater from submerged areas of Sindh province of Pakistan, Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah said on Sunday.
The Sindh provincial government's Home Department issued the order to arrest and detain the four before they were released from prison.
A court in Jacobabad in Sindh province has nullified the supposedly free-will marriage of a Hindu minor girl, who had been converted to Islam and then forced to marry the abductor.
Following a massive protest over the girl’s death and demand for a 'transparent investigation' into the incident by her family, the Sindh High Court on September 18 ordered a judicial inquiry into the matter.
