Pakistan Thursday shut down the offices of Save the Children after it published reports of the pathetic conditions of children in Balochistan, according to Baloch media sources.
A few days ago a Dawn newspaper’s online Urdu edition published a report of Save The Children about the child mortality rate in Chagai, Balochistan, where Pakistan conducted five underground nuclear tests on May 28, 1998, against Baloch wishes. However, the report was removed from the web site a few hours after its publications.
Pakistan said the organization was registered for Islamabad and had no business going to Quetta, capital of Balochistan, according to the Baloch media sources. It was clear Islamabad suspected the US-based organization of being a front office of the Central Intelligence Agency. BBC English quoted home minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, who is widely believed to have close family members in the army hierarchy as saying the NGO was operating beyond its remit with backing from US, Israel and India.
