ISLAMABAD
\nPakistan embassy in Ukraine said on Sunday a majority of 3,000 Pakistani students had left the country and the remaining 500 to 600 are being evacuated.
\n\u201cThere were about 3,000 Pakistani students in Ukraine,\u201d Pakistan\u2019s ambassador Noel Israel Khokhar said in an audio message posted on the embassy\u2019s Twitter account. \u201cBulk of them have been evacuated. Only 500-600 students are left. And they are also in the process of being evacuated.\u201d
\nThe embassy announced in a statement that Pakistanis had been evacuated from Ternopil and Lviv to Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Romania. It added that the country\u2019s diplomatic missions in the region were trying to coordinate with each other.
\n\u201cThe government of Ukraine is dysfunctional, yet the embassy is making all out efforts to facilitate evacuation of Pakistanis from Ukraine,\u201d the statement added.
\n\u201cThere are immense difficulties at border crossing points due to the huge number [of people] wanting to leave Ukraine,\u201d the embassy said in a Twitter post.
\nAccording to the figures provided by the embassy, 4,000 Pakistani nationals, mostly married to Ukrainians, have already left the country. The embassy said a night curfew had been imposed since the beginning of the conflict in different Ukrainian cities, including Kharkiv, Lviv and Ternopil.
\nIt added that Ternopil\u2019s district administration had issued a warning and advised people to keep their lights off and remain in safe places. \u201cNow, there is no safe place in Ukraine,\u201d the embassy added. \u201cAnd even cities like Lviv and Ternopil which are in the west of Ukraine have been hit.\u201d
\nA large number of Pakistani nationals were stranded in the Eastern European state after Russian forces started pounding Ukrainian cities with artillery and cruise missiles on Thursday. According to Moscow-based Interfax news agency, Russian troops have captured the southeastern city of Melitopol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD Pakistan embassy in Ukraine said on Sunday a majority of 3,000 Pakistani students had left the country and the remaining 500 to 600 are being evacuated. \u201cThere were about 3,000 Pakistani students in Ukraine,\u201d Pakistan\u2019s ambassador Noel Israel Khokhar said in an audio message posted on the embassy\u2019s Twitter account. \u201cBulk of them have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3138,4443,456],"class_list":{"0":"post-246752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news","8":"tag-embassy","9":"tag-pakistani-students","10":"tag-ukraine"},"yoast_head":"\n