Pakistan, Oct. 24 -- First Lady Bibi Asifa Bhutto Zardari has called for sustained and coordinated national efforts to eradicate polio, urging parents, communities and relevant institutions to ensure that no child was left unprotected against the preventable disease.

In her message on World Polio Day, she reaffirmed the commitment to building a polio-free Pakistan where every child could grow up healthy and protected from the disease.

Recalling her personal connection with the polio eradication campaign, the First Lady said her mother, Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, had launched Pakistan's first nationwide polio eradication campaign in 1994 and personally administered the first polio drops to her.

She said the moment marked the begin...