Pakistani authorities have given marching orders to the entire foreign staff of Save the Children over the charge of helping Dr Shahid Afridi carry out the fake polio campaign. Investigations by the authorities established the NGO’s role in facilitating Dr Afridi to go about his plan. It has been reported that many of the agencies’ workers had been in close contact with Mr Afridi for months, charges that the NGO has denied.At the end of the day, there are a large number of foreign managed aid and humanitarian agencies, with several engaged in northern area’s socio-economic development. Here, utmost vigil must be exercised because there is widespread suspicion that their workers are covert operatives. For a humanitarian agency to help further a political agenda by taking part in a secret operation of an intelligence agency naturally makes its role one that arouses suspicion in the locals now that this fact is known. For their own safety and for the sad fact that their efficacy will have been drastically reduced owing to the knowledge that Dr Afridi, a pariah figure, operated with their help, means it may be safer for their staff to no longer remain in Pakistan. Of course, the real victim in all of this are the children who will be left without vaccination. Not just thanks to Dr Afridi and the CIA's criminal short sightedness and overreaching in employing such a plan, but also because of the aid agency's decision to help him, knowingly or unknowingly. The exceptional role of genuine NGOs who should be applauded for their activities, under the circumstances will be greatly harmed, especially in light of this discovery of Dr Afridi's complicity with one of their ranks.