ISLAMABAD: A special plane of Pakistan International Airline (PIA) today left for Poland to repatriate more Pakistanis stranded in Warsaw due to the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
“PIA, in coordination with Ministry of Foreign Affairs-Government of Pakistan, has dispatched a special repatriation flight to Warsaw, Poland to bring back stranded countrymen from war-hit Ukraine,” tweeted the airline after the plane departed for Poland from Pakistan.
PIA said that PK7788, the flight number, will return to Islamabad with the stranded Pakistanis today.
The plane is expected to land at 10 am local time in Warsaw and will bring around 300 Pakistanis home who were displaced by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
When the crisis began on February 24, there were around 7,000 Pakistanis in Ukraine (community 4,000, students 3,000), the majority of whom had already departed the country on the advise of the Pakistan Embassy.
According to the Pakistani mission to the UN, since February 24, the Pakistani embassy in Ukraine has evacuated 1,525 Pakistanis to neighbouring Poland, Romania and Hungary.
