The government has collected the data of the girls whose parents refused to get them vaccinated against cervical cancer during the campaign, which kicked off on September 15, reported 24NewsHD TV channel on Wednesday.
Prior to the start of the campaign, the computerized national identity cards (CNIC) numbers of these parents and other details were noted down.
Sources told the 24News TV channel that over 3.6 million parents had refused to get their daughters administered the HPV vaccine.
They elaborated that 68,768 parents in Islamabad did not allow their daughters to be vaccinated against the disease, while in Punjab, the numbers rose to over 2.5 million.
Similarly, they added, there were 854,000 such parents in Sindh and 156,000 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).
Sources informed that the target of the campaign was to administer the vaccine to 11.7 million girls, while so far, over 7.7 million had been vaccinated.
Due to the refusal by a large number of parents, the campaign had been extended up till today (October 1).
Reporter: Babar Shahzad Turk