<span style="color: #222222;">Pakistan is expelling 18 international charities after rejecting their final appeal to stay in the country.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">A news agency reports the majority of the shuttered aid groups are U.S.-based according to a government list.The rest are from Britain and the European Union.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">On Thursday, Pakistan's Human Rights Minister Shireen Mazari, in a tweet, said the 18 charities were asked to leave for spreading disinformation. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Umair Hasan, spokesman for the Pakistan Humanitarian Foundation – an umbrella representing 15 of the charities said the move would affect millions of desperately poor Pakistanis and lead to tens of millions of aid dollars lost. </span><br />''