ISLAMABAD: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar on Wednesday said that more than 3,000 Pakistanis, mostly students, from Kyrgyzstan were brought back home in the past week after recent attacks on foreigners over an unknown dispute with migrants.
Pakistan began using special and commercial flight over the weekend to bring people home. More were expected to return later Wednesday, bringing their number to slightly over 4,000 by midnight.
Ishaq Dar told a news conference in Islamabad that the situation was under control now in the capital Bishkek, where authorities are trying to arrest people who attacked foreigners, including Pakistanis.
Thousands of Pakistanis study or work in Kyrgyzstan, and Dar said most of them wanted to come home.
He said he visited Bishkek the previous day, where he met his counterpart as well as Pakistanis who live there.
“Though the situation is now normal in Bishkek, we are facilitating those Pakistanis who want to come back,” Dar said.
According to Dar, the president said intelligence agencies had identified and also arrested perpetrators of the attack. Dar quoted the president a saying: “If an incident like this ever happens again, I will not spare anyone and they will be punished.”
