Granted that pakistani people love to engage in ‘conspiracy theories’ and a lot of time its purely that.But regarding the NGO suspicion , do you think it is entirely ‘nuts’ to suspect them?We now know that western NGOs have been used as undercover operations by CIA and other western intelligence agencies..case in point shakeel afridi and Save the Children. This has actually given credibility to the extremists’ ‘thoery’ that NGOs are infact western intelligence outposts… and as a result even government run vaccination schemes have failed and people have been shot.Its also known that Arab charities are used to funnel funds to sectarian organisations.Is it really unfair to assume that NGOs are not there to bring humanitarian services..rather those are just byproducts of their real objectives?
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If you find a few corrupt doctors, would you stop going to hospitals? If a few teachers are corrupt, would you stop sending kids to school?
If ‘western intelligence agencies’ can find cheap Pakistanis to do their dirty work, who should we blame? NGOs or ourselves?
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i wasn’t on about finding cheap pakis to do the dirty work. What i was referring to was institutional invovlement of NGOs..
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I have read somewhere that there at some point close to 1300 NGOs operating in Pakistan. It raises the question, are they all there on humanitarian/social grounds?
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They are not all humanitarian. The really small ones no one has ever heard off, those are the ones you avoid at all costs.
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To those who are suspicious of the existence of NGOs, I ask only the question: Since the government is not providing the services that the NGOs are, who should provide them?
NGO stands for “Non-Government Organization”. Edhi Foundation is an NGO, every Human Rights monitoring organization in Pakistan is an NGO, every domestic and international charity operating in Pakistan is an NGO.
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Anti-polio campaign: Foreign NGOs could ask USAID to withdraw support – The Express Tribune
Yes that is why they are asking to USAID to withdraw their funding.
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NGOs are a whole spectrum. even forgetting things like spying, there are ones that exist merely to skim off close to 95% of the donations into “employee salaries”. this is not a self-regulating industry where the inefficient or corrupt ones get weeded out. even when they do charity work, the permanent effects on the society are questionable. someone needs to lay down some rules and regulations on these orgs.