Amidst evacuation effort for its students in Ukraine, India has won gratitude of a Pakistani student girl too who has been rescued from the chilly and dangerous conditions in Ukraine.
Asthma Shafique thanked the Indian embassy in Kyiv and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi for evacuating her from the torn country.
According to ANI sources, Asthma was rescued by the Indian authorities and is en route to western Ukraine for further evacuation out of the country. She will be reunited with her family soon.
In a related update, a stranded Indian student assisted a Pakistani student in Kyiv in reaching the Romanian border, where she was evacuated to her motherland.
Ankit Yadav, who recently returned from the war-hit Ukraine, told ANI that he assisted her in getting to the Pakistani consulate, from where she was flown back to her hometown.
The Ministry of External Affairs on Tuesday announced that under Operation Ganga, the country has evacuated all stranded Indian students from Ukraine’s Sumy.
“Happy to inform that we have been able to move out all Indian students from Sumy. They are currently en route to Poltava, from where they will board trains to western Ukraine. Flights under Operation Ganga are being prepared to bring them home,” MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said in a tweet.
The number of Indians airlifted by 75 special civilian flights has gone up to 15,521. As part of Operation Ganga, IAF had flown 12 missions to bring back 2,467 stranded passengers and carried over 32-tonne relief material.
Among the civilian flights, 21 flights from Bucharest have carried 4,575 passengers, 1,820 brought from Suceava by 9 flights, 5571 Stranded Indians from Budapest by 28 flights, 909 by 5 flights from Kosice, 2404 passengers from Rzeszow by 11 flights, and 242 people by a flight from Kyiv.
