A Pakistani child is being vaccinated against polio by a district health team worker outside a children’s hospital in Peshawar. — File photo by AP
ISLAMABAD: A spokesman for Save the Children in Pakistan said the government has ordered its foreign staff members to leave the country.
Ghulam Qadri said on Thursday that the order from the Ministry of Interior for the organisation’s six expatriate staffers to leave came earlier this week.
He said the ministry gave no reason for the expulsion.
The group has come under Pakistani government scrutiny recently because of reports alleging that it helped facilitate meetings between the US and a doctor who helped hunt down Osama bin Laden.
The group has vehemently denied any such role.
Qadri said Save the Children had about 2,000 Pakistani employees across the country, and that the expulsion will not hinder its work.
The expulsion was first reported by the British newspaper The Guardian.
http://dawn.com/2012/09/06/pakistan-evicts-save-the-children-foreign-staff/
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