Observer Report
Beijing
At least 1,000 Pakistani students stranded in Wuhan will be repatriated via four special Pakistan International Airlines flights. The first special flight will depart for Wuhan on May 18.
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development Zulfiqar Bukhari took to microblogging website Twitter and welcomed the students back.
He maintained that Pakistan is proud of them for their sacrifices during the pandemic. Pakistan, since February, has ignored the Hubei-based students’ pleas to leave China as many other countries flew their citizens out.
A foreign ministry spokesperson said that it was reviewing flight operations for places where Pakistani citizens were stuck around the world and said students in Wuhan had been “very patient and brave” during the lockdown.