PESHAWAR: A new polio case was confirmed on Friday from a village near Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), officials said.

The Chief Minister's Polio Control Cell in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa said the crippling virus was detected in one-year-old Muhammad Maaz of Shakar Pura village near Peshawar.

Pakistan is one of only two countries in the world where polio remains endemic but efforts to eradicate the disease have been severely hindered in recent years as militants continue to attack immunisation teams and polio workers.

The global polio eradication initiative, which previously thought that world would become free from polio virus by 2015, had revised the deadline to 2018 due to the situation in Fata and KP.

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