The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said it is “halting most of its aid programmes in Pakistan due to deteriorating security and the beheading of a British staff doctor in April blamed on Taliban insurgents.” The ICRC said it would carry on working in the country “but on a reduced scale”. Jacques de Maio, head of ICRC operations in South Asia, said in a blog post that “All relief and protection activities are being stopped. All projects of rehabilitation, economic projects, have been terminated. We have closed a number of offices. We are also terminating all visits to detainees in Pakistan.” The agency, which rarely suspends its operations even in war zones, has worked in the country since the end of British colonial rule in 1947.

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