Nadia Khan treasures two photos of her sister Sumbal: one showing her bright-eyed and smiling, the other blank-faced in death after she was gunned down by militants, a “martyr” in Pakistan’s desperate fight against polio. It was May last year and Sumbal and her friend Shirafat were vaccinating children against the crippling disease at a rough mudbrick house in the village of Badaber in the country’s militant-plagued northwest. Suddenly, a motorbike pulled up and the man on the back opened fire,…

The martyrs of Pakistan’s fight against the crippling disease of polio
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