London, Sep 29(ANI): Fears that a fake Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) vaccination scheme created to hunt Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has compromised the operations of aid agencies in Pakistan have intensified after it emerged that a NGO was forced to evacuate its staff following warnings about their security.
According to the Guardian, London-based 'Save the Children' flew eight aid workers out of Pakistan in July after receiving a warning from US officials at the Peshawar consulate.
Western and Pakistani officials say that there were fears that the NGO's staff could be picked up by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency over alleged links to Dr. Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani doctor at the heart of the covert CIA vaccination scheme that helped locate Bin Laden.
Dr. Afridi was arrested by the ISI after it discovered that he had been recruited by the CIA to run a fake vaccination programme in Abbottabad to try to get DNA samples from the Al-Qaida leader's suspected hideout.
Save the Children vehemently denies any links to the CIA scheme.
"Dr Afridi never worked for Save the Children and his alleged activities were not in any way connected with us. We did not have a vaccination programme in Abbottabad," a spokeswoman said in London. (ANI)
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