Order to close Save the Children office held up

(MENAFN- Arab News) ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's Interior Ministry has halted an order it made closing the office of international aid group Save the Children in Islamabad an official said Sunday.
The senior Interior Ministry official who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity as he wasn't authorized to discuss the decision did not elaborate. The organization could not be immediately reached for comment.
On Thursday Pakistan shuttered the group's main office in the capital for allegedly 'violating its charter.' By Friday the organization had shut all its offices across the country.
At the time Pakistan said it would not allow any non-government organization to work against its interests without elaborating. The group has said it received no prior warning before its office was closed saying it had worked in Pakistan for over 35 years and that it had 1200 employees nationwide none of them a foreign national.
The US State Department has expressed concern over the closure.
Save the Children's Pakistan operations have been under intense scrutiny due to a local belief that the organization was somehow connected to the May 2 2011 killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.
A vaccination campaign run by a Pakistani doctor was used by the CIA to obtain DNA samples in the city of Abbottabad where bin Laden had been hiding in a secured compound.