Islamabad: The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has directed its polio field workers in Pakistan to start anti-polio campaign across the country, after its was suspended over attacks on December 18, 2012 on the campaigners.
In a statement issued on Monday, the UN’s children’s fund said that it had directed its members, which exceeds from 1600, to start working on the anti-polio campaign.
Meanwhile, the UNICEF said that the campaign would remain suspended in Gadap Town, an area of Pakistan’s business hub, Karachi, and Pashin, an area of insurgency-hit Balochistan province.
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