Overview

• On May 27, unidentified gunmen in Noshki, Balochistan, fatally shot policeman Abdul Waheed while the polio workers he was protecting escaped unharmed.
• The attack occurred on the second day of a door-to-door drive deploying 400,000 workers to immunize 45 million children under five years old.
• Pakistan has reported 10 polio cases so far in 2025 and remains one of only two countries, alongside Afghanistan, where the virus is still endemic.
• Suspicion falls on the Pakistani Taliban or Baloch separatist militants, though no group has claimed responsibility for the assault.
• President Asif Ali Zardari and Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi condemned the killing and vowed to continue eradication efforts despite over 200 previous deaths among polio teams and their guards since the 1990s.