War-torn Ukraine: 35 Pakistani students manage to reach Poland

Kharkiv: Pakistan embassy has managed to evacuate 35 stranded Pakistani students to Poland from Kharkiv city of war-torn Ukraine on Friday.

The Pakistan embassy in Ukraine has expedited efforts to evacuate stranded nationals in war-torn Ukraine. Following their efforts, 35 Pakistani students have managed to reach Poland via train from Kharkiv city, whereas, 65 more nationals will be sent to Poland on Saturday.

Poland authorities have earlier opened only one crossing point for pedestrian movement for Pakistanis. After the request of the Pakistani government, Poland opened eight border crossing points for Pakistanis for evacuation purposes.

In a Twitter message, The Pakistani embassy in Ukraine said that the officials have ‘managed to evacuate 35 Pakistani students to Poland. They have reached the camp on the Polish side of the border. The Embassy of Pakistan Poland is making arrangements for their transportation to Warsaw.’

The Embassy of Pakistan Ukraine has managed to evacuate 35 Pakistani students to Poland. They have reached camp on Polish side of the border. The Embassy of Pakistan Poland is making arrangements for their transportation to Warsaw.@SMQureshiPTI @ForeignOfficePk #Pakistan

— Pakistan Embassy Ukraine (@PakinUkraine) February 25, 2022

Earlier, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) had 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.