<div class='node-body'><p>Taliban officials in Pakistan have banned a polio eradication campaign taking place in South Waziristan in an attempt to force an end to increased US bombing raids in the tribal areas that run along the Afghan border.</p>
<p>Pakistan is one of only three countries left in the world where polio has a significant foothold, but efforts to control the disease have been hampered by local mistrust of medical officials since it was revealed that the CIA fabricated a fake vaccination drive in an attempt to confirm the whereabouts of Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in 2011.</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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