ISLAMABAD: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) returned 230 stranded Pakistanis from Ukraine on Wednesday.
The special plane landed at Islamabad airport with people on board. Most of them were students from Poland who had crossed the border from war-torn Ukraine.
On hand to greet the passengers were Ambassador Maciej Pisarski of the Republic of Poland, his wife, Justyna Maria Pisarski, and Foreign Secretary Sohail Mehmood.
Yesterday, a PIA Boeing–777 departed from Lahore airport for Warsaw, Poland’s capital.
Earlier this month, the Pakistani Embassy said that about 98 percent of Pakistanis had been able to get out of the country safely.
Dr Noel Khokhar, Pakistan’s Ambassador to Ukraine, said that the embassy is making every effort to assist the people.
He said in an audio message that the safe evacuation was almost complete and that the evacuated individuals had been transported to Poland, from where they would be returned to Pakistan.
