MIRAMSHAH: The National Institute of Health Islamabad confirmed a new polio case in North Waziristan Agency on Monday.

“The country has registered 10 cases this year, all from North Waziristan Agency,”

officials said. They added that North Waziristan Agency had recorded 44 cases, highest number of the 92 cases registered in the country in 2013. All the affected children, detected last year, hadn’t received any dose of the oral polio vaccine because of the ban imposed on immunisation in the area by Taliban in June 2012.

All the affected children detected in 2014 hadn’t been administered anti-polio vaccine owing to the Taliban’s ban.

On Monday, one-year-old Hilal, daughter of Saeedullah, a resident of Datta Khel in Miramshah was tested positive for polio. She didn’t get the anti-polio vaccine. The ban on polio drops in North and South Waziristan has left about 260,000 children without vaccination. The unvaccinated children risked being affected by the crippling disease, officials said.