Pakistan appears to remain far behind in attaining the goal of polio eradication by the year 2000 as some 101 acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) cases, including 45 confirmed polio cases, have been reported in Sindh during the last six months. The Minimum requirement for any country to be declared Polio- Free is to attain a zero level polio incidence rate, which is required to be maintained for three consecutive years. By that standard Pakistan should have secured the status in 1997, the very year when 922 polio cases were reported in different parts of the country, including 304 in Sindh.