Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, April 25 -- The National Institute of Health (NIH) has confirmed a new polio case in the Bannu area of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, taking the overall number of cases in the province in 2025 to three and eight in the nation, The Express Tribune reported, citing authorities.

The new case in Pakistan comes at a time when a second nationwide polio vaccination campaign of the year is underway, with an aim to vaccinate more than 45.4 million children under the age of five, including 2.6 million in Balochistan.

Earlier this month, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif praised the country's anti-polio efforts in a high-level review meeting, noting that no new case had been reported in Pakistan since February 10, The Expr...