Rafiullah Mandokhel

Nov 30, 2024 | tribune.com.pk | Rafiullah Mandokhel

By Rafiullah Mandokhel | PUBLISHED December 01, 2024 BALOCHISTAN: Eighteen-month-old Usman Ali from Balochistan’s Zhob district is one of the 56 unfortunate children in Pakistan who contracted poliovirus in 2024, the most recent of these cases detected just this week.

Nov 13, 2024 | fairplanet.org | Rafiullah Mandokhel

Balochistan is Pakistan’s fruit basket, producing 90 per cent of fresh fruits for the rest of the country. Farming has not been easy in the province, however, as frequent power cuts, voltage fluctuations, and unpredictable rainfalls worsened by human-caused climate change have made watering their produce increasingly tricky. Agriculture accounts for 93 per cent of total water use in the province.

Oct 30, 2024 | voanews.com | Iftikhar Hussain |Rafiullah Mandokhel

Militant groups have intensified attacks against polio vaccination teams and their police escorts in Pakistan amid a dramatic resurgence of polio cases in the country. Officials say because of the deteriorating security situation, polio vaccination teams cannot reach communities in high-risk areas where polio is endemic. On Tuesday, militants attacked two health centers in the tribal districts of Orakzai and Waziristan that are being used in the polio vaccination campaign.