ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office has announced the end of evacuation operations out of Sudan, leading the inter-agency operation for the evacuation of stranded citizens from the conflict zone.Â
This announcement came just hours after 93 more Pakistanis were evacuated from Sudan, bringing the total number of Pakistanis evacuated to 10,000.
The Foreign Office took to Twitter on Tuesday to announce the end of the evacuation operation, thanking Allah and the tireless efforts of their embassy in Khartoum led by Amb Regi, supported by Saudi Arabia and China, and their teams in Jeddah and Islamabad.
By Allah’s grace and tireless efforts of our embassy in Khartoum led by Amb Regi, supported by ???????? and ???????? and our teams in Jeddah and Islamabad, we have successfully & safely evacuated over 1000 Pakistanis out of Sudan. With this our evacuation operations out of Sudan have ended.
— Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Pakistan (@ForeignOfficePk) May 2, 2023
However, the Foreign Office also said that evacuations through Jeddah will continue until the last Pakistani returns safely.
Around 1,200 Pakistanis, including the ones evacuated, lived in Sudan, according to the Minister for Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development Sajjid Hussain Turi, who spoke to reporters.
Earlier, 636 stranded Pakistanis returned home and reached Jinnah International Airport in Karachi from Sudan via Jeddah on five special PAF flights.
