On the request of Pakistani students stranded in Wuhan, the Abdul Sattar Edhi Foundation had decided to evacuate them by arranging chartered flights.
The Edhi Foundation on Sunday wrote a letter to Foreign Minister (FM) Shah Mehmood Qureshi asking for permission to evacuate students from China’s city of Wuhan.
In the letter, Faisal Edhi, managing trustee of the foundation formally requested the foreign minister to grant them permission to evacuate Pakistani students that have been trapped in Wuhan of Hubei province of China.
“The Pakistani students are in our contact and we want to evacuate them from China,” Edhi wrote in the letter.
The letter states that coronavirus has been spreading fast and Pakistani students are suffering from stress and facing a serious food shortage.
“Most of the Pakistani students are not infected and we can save them,” said the letter.
The letter highlights that many countries such as America, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and India have already evacuated their citizens from Wuhan and are taking precautionary measures on their own.
He not only asked the government for permission but also asked to assist in identifying the areas where students will be quarantined until they are tested and cleared.
Once the government grants them permission, the Edhi Foundation will contact airlines and arrange chartered flights to evacuate the students at the earliest, elaborated Faisal Edhi.
