11 INDIANS RESCUED FROM YEMEN ARRIVE IN PAKISTAN

Karachi, Pakistan, 19 Jumadil Akhir 1436/8 April 2015 (MINA) – 11 Indians on Tuesday arrived in Karachi after being rescued from strife-torn Yemen. A Pakistani navy ship carried them, along with Pakistani nationals, following which Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif offered a special plane to carry them home.

A PTI report quoted sources saying that a team of Indian High Commission was at the port to meet the evacuees, who reached Karachi along with 171 others. Indiatoday quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA) as reporting.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Sharif offered a special plane to carry the evacuees to India, which has thanked him for his “gesture”. His offer has been conveyed by the mission to Delhi, which will take a call whether to accept it.

“Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif offers Indian High Commission Islamabad a special aircraft to take 11 Indians (evacuated from Yemen) from Pakistan to India,” the Pakistan High Commissioner to India said in New Delhi.

However, the Indian High Commission has already made arrangements for their return to India on Wednesday from Karachi.

According to Pakistan Foreign Office last week, 11 Indians along with 171 others were evacuated by the PNS Aslat from Yemen’s southeastern city of Mokallah, which is now almost entirely under control of al-Qaeda militants. Indian authorities had also evacuated Pakistani nationals from the Yemeni port of Al Hodeidah last week. (T/P007/P3)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)