Pakistani authorities today launched an anti-polio drive aimed at covering over 700,000 children in the tribal areas and frontier regions of the country’s northwest.

The three-day campaign will cover all the semi-autonomous tribal regions except North and South Waziristan Agencies, Bara sub-district, some areas of Orakzai Agency and three union councils of Frontier Region Bannu.

As a result, some 0.2897 million children will miss the crucial drops.

Arbab Muhammad Arif, Additional Chief Secretary of the tribal areas, administered polio drops to children at the FATA Secretariat to formally inaugurate the campaign in the restive region.

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