All segments of society to take part in anti-polio campaign: Usman Buzdar.

LAHORE -- Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar on Sunday announced the commencement of anti-polio vaccination campaign across the province from Monday (tomorrow), media reported.

CM Usman Buzdar, in his Twitter message, said that all segments of the society will have to fight a war against polio disease in Pakistan in order to void children of the next generation. He announced ministers, parliamentarians and civil society will unitedly take part in the upcoming campaign.

Earlier in May, Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar had urged the religious scholars to support the anti-polio campaign in the country.

Talking to a delegation of Ulema belonging to different schools of thought who called on him in Lahore, CM Buzdar urged the religious scholars to provide all-out support to make the anti-polio campaign successful.

Speaking on the occasion, the chief minister said that surfacing polio cases in Pakistan was a matter of concern and added that the whole world had...

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