Overview
- Authorities recorded 30 polio cases in 2025, down from 74 in 2024, according to the National Emergency Operations Centre.
- The final 2025 vaccination drive targeted 45.4 million children and reached 44.6 million, reflecting more than 98% coverage despite refusals and access issues.
- Pakistan plans its next anti-polio campaign in the first week of February 2026 to sustain recent gains.
- The World Health Organization notes that Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only countries where polio remains endemic.
- Security threats persist as militants have attacked vaccination teams, prompting large police deployments, with officials reporting more than 200 workers and police killed since the 1990s, and access gaps remain in parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa even as Balochistan and Punjab report nearly a year without cases.