KARACHI
The government has announced that a special national flag carrier airoplane will be sent to evacuate stranded Pakistani students from Ukraine.
All options will be used to take out the Pakistani students from the war-hit country. Arrangements are being finalised in this regard. Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) chief Air Marshal (retd) Arshad Malik on Friday talked to Pakistan’s Ambassador to Ukraine Major General (retd) Noel Israel Khokhar and discussed different options to evacuate the Pakistani students stranded there due to the prevailing situation.
The Chief Executive Officer of the PIA, in a tweet, said currently the airspace of Ukraine was closed but various options were being worked out for safe evacuation of the Pakistani students. He expressed confidence to find ‘a way’ in that regard and the national flag carrier was just a call away to carry out the airlift operation.
“I spoke to HE Gen Noel, our ambassador in Ukraine, he was wide awake with his full team in the embassy, discussed various options to recover our students through #PIA, airspace is closed but working out various options In Sha Allah, we shall find a way, PIA is a call away,” he tweeted.
Amid the rising tension between Ukraine and Russia, a Pakistani student, who is studying MBBS in Ukraine’s capital city Kiev, has lost his contact with his parents in Tando Allahyar, sources disclosed.
The parents said their 24-year-old son, Zarrar Gujjar, was studying MBBS in Kiev’s International European University. They said it had been more than 24 hours since they could not contact their child, since the Russian attack. Father of the stranded youth, Khadim Hussain Gujjar said his son was third year MBBS student. He said they had tried multiple times to contact him but to no avail. He said they also failed to establish contact with the Pakistan embassy.
He requested the Pakistani government to immediately bring back all the Pakistanis including his son stranded in the conflict.
