A police constable was shot and killed on Wednesday when armed men on motorcycles opened fire on a polio vaccination team in Dera Murad Jamali, a town in Balochistan's (a southwestern Pakistani province) Nasirabad district. Constable Farhan Bashir was escorting the team during a lunch break when the assailants fired ten rounds before fleeing; no group has claimed responsibility and a search operation is underway. The attack comes during Pakistan's second nationwide polio campaign of 2025, which aims to vaccinate more than 45 million children under five, and follows a similar assault the same day in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that left one officer dead and four wounded — underscoring the persistent security threat facing frontline health workers in the country.