In Balochistan: ‘Closing Save the Children a conspiracy’

Save the Children has played a significant role in improving the education and health of children in Balochistan


Mohammad Zafar June 29, 2015
Save the Children has played a significant role in improving the education and health of children in Balochistan. PHOTO: EXPRESS

QUETTA:


Balochistan’s Health Minister Rehmat Saleh Baloch on Sunday condemned the closure of Save the Children NGO’s operations in the province, terming it a ‘conspiracy’ to keep the region backward.


“Funds which were supposed to be spent on the education sector of Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa through Save the Children have now been transferred to Punjab and Sindh,” he said at a news conference in Quetta. He called on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to take notice of the closure.

Read: Save the Children offices still closed in Pakistan

“Save the Children has played a significant role in improving the education and health of children in Balochistan. I personally appeal to the prime minister to allow this organisation to continue to work in the province,” Rehmat said.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 29th, 2015. 

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