A special chartered flight arrived at Lahore on Tuesday morning with 258 Pakistanis on board.
This is the sixth such flight since August 13 organised for evacuating thousands of stranded Pakistanis in Libya and brings the total number of Pakistanis airlifted to Pakistan to 1,727.
Around 1,800 destitute Pakistanis are still awaiting evacuation and are presently housed in relief camps set up by the Pakistan Embassy in Tripoli. Frequent flights are planned during the coming week so as to ensure that the stranded Pakistanis being supported in emergency accommodation are brought back to their homes at the earliest, as per the prime minister’s directive.
In the meanwhile, all required support and sustenance is being provided to Pakistani nationals in Libya by the Pakistani Embassy in Tripoli, which is fully functional despite the ongoing instability and violence in the country.
