ISLAMABAD: The special chartered flight of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has departed for Islamabad from Poland’s capital Warsaw to bring back stranded Pakistanis from Ukraine.
The PIA flight PK-7788 has departed for Pakistan from Poland’s capital Warsaw to bring back 232 nationals home. The special chartered flight will land in Islamabad at 11:30 pm tonight.
Earlier, the Pakistani government had decided to operate a special chartered flight to Poland today to bring back stranded Pakistanis from Ukraine. The foreign ministry’s spokesperson had said in a statement that a chartered flight will be operated to Poland today. The flight will bring back the nationals from Warsaw.
The spokesperson had said that 7,000 Pakistanis including 3,000 students were present in war-torn Ukraine. Most nationals have already left Ukraine following the advice of the Pakistani embassy on February 24. 1,525 Pakistanis were shifted to Hungary, Poland and Romania, it added.
On March 4, Pakistan’s ambassador in the war-hit country Dr Noel Khokhar had said that as many as 1,470 Pakistani students were evacuated from Ukraine. –Agencies
