AP, Islamabad :
Pakistani media says as many as 176 more Pakistanis have returned home after being evacuated from Yemen with help from the Chinese navy.
State-run television on Friday showed live footage of cheerful Pakistanis exiting a special flight at the Islamabad airport.
According to media reports, a Chinese ship took these Pakistanis from the southern Yemeni port city of Aden to Djbouti, where a Pakistani plane brought them home.
So far, Pakistan has evacuated 676 Pakistanis out of the estimated 3,000 of its citizens living in Yemen.
Pakistan has expressed support for the Saudi-led coalition’s ongoing airstrikes against Shiite rebels in Yemen, who have overrun the capital, Sanaa, and forced the Western-backed president to flee.
Meanwhile, Sri Lanka’s government said Friday that it has sought assistance from neighboring India and China to help evacuate its citizens in Yemen amid the raging violence there.
Pakistani media says as many as 176 more Pakistanis have returned home after being evacuated from Yemen with help from the Chinese navy.
State-run television on Friday showed live footage of cheerful Pakistanis exiting a special flight at the Islamabad airport.
According to media reports, a Chinese ship took these Pakistanis from the southern Yemeni port city of Aden to Djbouti, where a Pakistani plane brought them home.
So far, Pakistan has evacuated 676 Pakistanis out of the estimated 3,000 of its citizens living in Yemen.
Pakistan has expressed support for the Saudi-led coalition’s ongoing airstrikes against Shiite rebels in Yemen, who have overrun the capital, Sanaa, and forced the Western-backed president to flee.
Meanwhile, Sri Lanka’s government said Friday that it has sought assistance from neighboring India and China to help evacuate its citizens in Yemen amid the raging violence there.
