On Friday, the Pakistan Mission in Ukraine announced that it had nearly completed the evacuation of its citizens who had become stranded in war-torn Ukraine.
“The Embassy of Pakistan Ukraine has safely evacuated 98 percent of Pakistanis from Ukraine. Now only those few (around 30) Pakistanis are left in Ukraine who are stuck in areas of intense fight,” the mission said in an update on Twitter.
In a subsequent tweet, the embassy stated that it had approached both the Ukrainian and Russian governments about opening a humanitarian corridor to allow the remaining Pakistanis to be evacuated.
According to Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, there were nearly 3,000 Pakistanis in Ukraine when the war broke out last month.
Indian Students Helped on Humanitarian Grounds
He also revealed that on “humanitarian grounds,” Pakistan’s embassy in Ukraine assisted “distressed” Indian students fleeing the Ukraine war.
“You must have seen videos of our embassy in Lviv helping Indian students fleeing Ukraine where they were provided food,” Qureshi said. “They are kids in distress due to war, and we helped them whatever was possible on a humanitarian basis,” he added.
The foreign minister stated that he had discussed the safe exit of Pakistani students from the war zone with his counterparts in Romania, Hungary, and Poland, and that they had assured Pakistan of their support in this regard.
“I talked with the Romanian foreign minister and sought an update from him on the latest situation of the conflict. Romania has a long 400-mile border with Ukraine and my discussion was focused on the assistance of our students fleeing war,” he added.
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