New Delhi: Pakistani student Asma Shafique thanked the Indian embassy in Kyiv and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for evacuating her in Ukraine.
“I am really thankful to the Indian Embassy of Kyiv and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for evacuating me. Thank you so much for the support,” she told the media.
Around 76,000 international students in Ukraine, nearly 25 percent were from India.
The rest are from Morocco, Turkmenistan, Nigeria, China, and Pakistan. Under ‘Operation Ganga’ to rescue Indian citizens from Ukraine, about 18 thousand Indians have been brought back by special flights so far. The first special flight began on February 22.
The student identified as Asma Shafique will be reunited with her family soon.
India has not only evacuated stranded Indian students from war-ravaged Ukraine but many Pakistani and Nepali students as well.
On Monday, a Pakistani student Misha Arshad slammed the behaviour of the Pakistani embassy and accused them of doing nothing to ensure the evacuation of Pakistani students from Kharkiv.
Later, she took a bus ride arranged by the Indian embassy to Ternopil city.
I was the only Pakistani in a bus full of Indian students, she said.
She also rejected the Pakistani foreign ministry’s claim that they evacuated 1,476 Pakistani nationals stranded in the conflict zone calling it “fake news”.
(_Vinayak)