ISLAMABAD:
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has said that NGOs would not be allowed to operate in sensitive areas from now onwards, reported sources.
Talking to newsmen at the Parliament House on Monday, he said Save the Children, an international aid group, would be permitted to partially resume its operations in the country.
The minister said that all NGOs operating in Pakistan would have to get themselves registered within six months. International as well as local NGOs would be given permission to operate only after scrutiny clearance, he added.
Chaudhry Nisar said that all NGOs, including Save the Children, had been allowed conditionally to work for six months. “I want to say very categorically that if the NGOs did not get themselves registered within six months or refused to do so, they would not be allowed to work in the country.”
He said that after negotiations for more than 10 days, 13 offices of Save the Children were allowed to operate in the country, except Fata and other sensitive areas. Save the Children has 73 offices in Pakistan. Its foreign staff had already been refused visa, he added.
