PIA gives green signal to evacuate Pakistani citizens in war-torn Ukraine

Pakistan Airlines (PIA) has given green signal to evacuate Pakistani citizens and students trapped in war-torn Ukraine.

According to the reports, PIA CEO Arshad Malik and the Pakistani Ambassador to Ukraine Dr Nael I Khokhar held a contact to discuss different plans for the evacuation of the nationals from war-torn Ukraine.

A flight operation was prepared to evacuate 2,000 Pakistanis trapped in Ukraine. According to the plan, all Pakistani students will gather in Ukraine’s Ternopil city. The embassy will make arrangements to transport the students via the ground route to Poland.

A PIA Boeing 777 will airlift the Pakistani students from Poland.

In a statement, the PIA CEO said that preparations are underway to operate the evacuation flight. The flight will immediately depart for Poland to bring back the students. He vowed that the national flag carrier will take all-out efforts to evacuate all Pakistanis from the war zone.

In his Twitter message, Arshad Malik wrote, “I spoke to HE Gen Noel, our ambassador in Ukraine, he was wide awake with his full team in 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.

I spoke to HE Gen Noel, our ambassador in Ukraine, he was wide awake with his full team in 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

— Air Marshal Arshad Malik (@amarshadmalik) February 25, 2022