Save the Children ordered to leave Pakistan: officials

Pakistani authorities yesterday ordered the international aid group Save the Children to leave the country saying the charity was "working against the country", police and government officials said.

Government administration officials accompanied by police arrived at the charity's office in the heart of the capital Islamabad after working hours and placed a lock on the door and a notice saying the building had been sealed.

In 2012 a Pakistan intelligence report has linked the aid group to Pakistani doctor Shakeel Afridi who the CIA allegedly used to carry out a fake vaccination programme as they searched for al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.

Save the Children has always denied it had any links with Afridi or the CIA.