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Updated 26 Aug, 2014 02:42pm

Hundreds miss polio vaccine at Pak-Afghan border

In July this year, Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed to strengthen mutual cooperation for making anti-polio campaign in border areas of the two countries effective. But the last week alone has seen hundreds of families traveling between the two countries miss the drive after the vaccine ran out at the Friendship Gate near the Chaman border. According to Balochistan`s Minister for Health Rehmat Baloch, an estimated 800 children are vaccinated every day. -Photos and text by Matiullah Achakzai

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