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KARACHI – Trust International Chairman Ansar Burney and former federal minister for human rights Ansar Burney has said that the special rescue flight of Buraq Air with 180 rescued Pakistanis and two dead bodies from Libya reached Lahore on Friday.
Ansar said that almost 7,000 stranded Pakistanis have already arrived home in Pakistan, but the rescue flights were temporarily stopped because of Hajj and Eid-ul-Adha. The trust has thanked government of Pakistan especially President Mamnoon Hussain, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif for resuming rescue flights and bringing back remaining Pakistanis trapped in the ongoing civil war in Libya.
He appreciated the morale, passion, courage and patriotic spirit of Ambassador Lt General Javed Zia, Defence Attaché Brigadier Imran Mushtaq and Second Secretary Liaquat Waraich and all staff who put their lives on stake and chose to stay in Libya to save and evacuate all Pakistanis from Libya, despite the fact that other embassies had already abandoned Libya owing to worst condition of law and order.
He paid gratitude and appreciated the concern and immediate response from the president, prime minister, COAS, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Prime Minister's special Adviser Sirtaj Aziz, Special Assistant to Prime Minister Tariq Fatemi and Ambassador of Pakistan in Libya Lt General Javed Zia, to honor and respond the SOS call from Ansar trust and resume the chartered rescue flights to Libya, to bring back remaining Pakistanis home.
He said that the last special flight from Libya would leave for Pakistan on Tuesday, November 4 and all Pakistanis who have already registered themselves with embassy are requested to immediately contact Pakistan Embassy in Tripoli on Saturday before 10 pm for clearance from Libyan immigration.
