Egypt situation: Evacuation if crisis worsens’

FO says it will evacuate the 150 Pakistani families only if situation worsens.


Express January 31, 2011

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Sunday said it was monitoring the events unfolding in Egypt but would only evacuate its citizens from the Arab country if the situation worsened there.

The Foreign Office did not say exactly how it plans to bring back around 150 Pakistani families from the troubled Arab state whose people were on the streets for a sixth day of anti-government protests. “We are in touch with our mission in Cairo (Egyptian capital). We are watching what is happening there,” Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said.

Several countries, including the United States and India, have already sent commercial airplanes to Cairo to bring back their citizens from Egypt.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 31st,  2011.

COMMENTS (3)

ASZ | 13 years ago | Reply Waiting for the No point of return.
Syed A. Mateen | 13 years ago | Reply The government should not wait for any thing else to happen in Egypt and evacuate all Pakistanis without any further delay to save precious human lives. What else can be worst than of the present situation in Egypt? America has already issued travel advisory for its citizens not to go Egypt and have asked its national to keep away from the troubled area.
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