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540 students to return from Kyrgyzstan today via special flights, says Dar
Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar on Sunday mentioned that three particular business flights had been organized to carry again 540 Pakistani college students from Kyrgyzstan as we speak.
Addressing a press convention in Lahore alongside Info Minister Attaullah Tarar, Dar — additionally the overseas minister — mentioned, “Yesterday, round 130 college students reached Pakistan by way of business flights. So as we speak, three business flights, particular flights have been organized. Via these 540 extra college students will be capable to return and the [total] quantity will improve to 670.”
He additional mentioned that the federal government had additionally talked to the air power as we speak, including that it could additionally function a particular flight. “The capability of that flight might be roughly 130 and for that the embassy has let the scholars know […] To this point, round 50 college students have let the embassy know they want to go on this flight,” he mentioned.
The event comes after round greater than 100 college students arrived in Lahore final evening, following mob violence within the Central Asian nation’s capital Bishkek, which had resulted in accidents to 5 Pakistani college students as per the Kyrgyz well being ministry.
Kyrgyz police mentioned they’d mobilised forces within the Central Asian nation’s capital on Friday to quell violence, through which a whole bunch of Kyrgyz males attacked buildings housing overseas college students, together with Pakistanis. Based on Pakistan’s embassy in Bishkek, overseas college students dwelling within the Kyrgyz capital, together with these from Pakistan, have been attacked by locals within the aftermath of a brawl with Egyptian nationals on Might 13.