ISLAMABAD: No Pakistanis remain in and around violence-hit Osh city in Kyrgyzstan, said Foreign Office spokesperson Abdul Basit on Wednesday. Talking to Express 24/7, he said that all Pakistani students in Osh had been evacuated.
On Tuesday, over two hundred Pakistani students studying in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, were flown home on two C-130 military aircraft specially sent to retrieve them. The students were rescued as ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan surged, displacing thousands.
One Pakistani student, Ali Raza, was killed in the ethnic clashes when he was hit by a stray bullet. His body was returned to his family on Tuesday. Commenting on other Pakistanis in Kyrgyzstan, Basit said he estimated that around 100 or more students were currently studying in the capital city of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek.
“I don’t know the exact number,” he admitted, adding that the embassy was still in the process of compiling data.
Basit said that Pakistani nationals in Bishkek were safe and sound as violence had not spread to the capital.
