Tag: Save The Children

NAURU: Police on the Pacific island of Nauru raided Save the Children's offices Thursday for the second time this month, reportedly seeking the source of leaks to Australian media about asylum-seekers.

ISLAMABAD: Save the Children said Wednesday its office in Islamabad had been unsealed but it would take time to resume operations across Pakistan after a crackdown on foreign aid agencies by authorities.

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has asked all the international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) to register themselves within three months as part of a wider crackdown that has involved sealing the offices of Save the Children, ARY News reported.

ISLAMABAD: Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan Monday told that the office of 'Save the Children' has not been reopened, adding that several NGOs were barred from operating in the country during past one-and-a-half year, ARY News reported.

ISLAMABAD: Save the Children said its offices in Pakistan remained closed and its operations suspended Monday, despite media reports the government had reversed an order halting its work in the country.

KARACHI: The Ministry of Interior, in a letter dated June 12, has said that the action against international NGO Save The Children "may be held in abeyance till further orders."

WASHINGTON: The United States on Friday warned Pakistan it was only hurting itself after Save the Children was expelled for "working against the country," with Islamabad threatening to throw out more foreign aid groups.

A day after the Pakistan Government sealed the local offices of the UK-based Save the Children and order its foreign staff to leave the country, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar said that no NGO that worked against Pakistan's culture or laws/Constitution would be allowed to function in the country.

ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan Friday said no non-governmental organisation could be allowed to indulge in unlawful activities in the guise of charity work, ARY News reported.

UNITED NATIONS: Norway ranks as the world's best place to be a mother, well ahead of the United States which dropped to the 33rd spot in the annual scorecard released by Save the Children on Monday.