Pakistan orders Save the Children to Leave

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Appears Pakistan have effectivleyt kicked Save the children our of the country for "Anti-Pakistan activities"

No real comment but the best they have given is

Their activities were being monitored since a long time. They were doing something which was against Pakistan's interest."

Speaking after the charity was shut, Pakistan Interior Minister Chaudry Nisar Ali Khan said that NGO's were operating beyond their remit with backing from US, Israel and India.
"Local NGOs that use foreign help and foreign funding to implement a foreign agenda in Pakistan should be scared. We will not allow them to work here whatever connections they enjoy, regardless of the outcry," he said in a live television broadcast.

Can only really take a view of it being an Anti US/Anti Isreal decision..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia...28?OCID=fbasia

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Do you have a link to the source ?

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Do you have a link to the source ?

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[Dr Assbandit]

As a Britishborn Pakistani that now resides in the US, and having made a trip back to Pakistan a couple months ago the problem is a little more complicated than just "Anti Israel-Anti US". There is a deep seated distrust of foreign entities in Pakistan in general, barring the people working in embassies. Even when they had that earthquake there that toppled residential buildings, the government was hard pressed to allow foreign aid to come and dig people out of the rubble, to the point that medical and other college students made hour long trips to go and try and help out in any way possible. Drone strikes and large amounts of civilian casualties in the Northern areas hasn't helped with that much either.

Secondly the rampant corruption in the government. It's a big reason why people don't like sending monetary aid there. A lot of the times the money will probably line the pockets of the current administration, and they are the ones who dictate the foreign policy. Chances are if the Save the Children foundation hasn't offered some sort of bribe to the government then they aren't welcome there.