Anti polio campaign starts in Peshawar.

PESHAWAR -- A seven-day anti-polio campaign has been launched in Peshawar, in which more than 0.9 million children under the age of five would be administered polio drops.

Deputy Commissioner Peshawar Safiullah Khan said that more than four thousand policemen have been deployed for the security of polio vaccination teams.

He said that the polio vaccination campaign has also started in other districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

He said that efforts would be made to convince parents who are reluctant to give polio drops to their children.

Deputy Commissioner said the eradication of poliovirus...