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| SOURCE: DW |
Pakistani travelers are stranded at various airports around the world.
Pakistan closed its airspace for two weeks for all international flights to deal with the Corona virus. Following the decision, Pakistani passengers were stranded at various airports including Dubai, Doha, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur.
Many Pakistani travelers are not allowed to leave the airport on the one hand because they do not have a visa or corona virus test certificate and on the other hand an airline to bring them to Pakistan due to the restrictions on international flights in the country. Is not ready for Those Pakistanis stranded at various airports, including elderly men, women and children, and patients at Bangkok airport, told DW that they had spent about twenty-four hours waiting at the airport and they knew nothing. Not when they will be able to return to their country.
Speaking exclusively to DW, Pakistan's Foreign Office spokeswoman Aisha Farooqi said it was true that Pakistani travelers were stranded at several airports. He added that Pakistan's diplomatic staff in these countries are in constant contact with them to solve the problems of the passengers and hope that this issue will be resolved soon.
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| SOURCE: DW |
According to Aisha Farooqi, "it is not currently possible to tell the total number of Pakistani passengers stranded at various airports as details are being collected in this regard right now." There, Pakistan's diplomatic staff is in constant contact with airport officials and Thai Foreign Office officials to resolve the passengers' problems.
Responding to a question, Aisha Farooqi said that many countries have introduced new rules and regulations in the new situation arising after the Corona virus crisis, as well as many departments in the decision-making process in Pakistan. And every effort is being made to address these issues.
Situation of Pakistani travelers stranded at Bangkok Airport
Pakistani travelers stranded at Bangkok Airport include Mohammad Jehangir, a young man from Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Talking to DW, he said that Thai authorities are demanding a passenger to leave the airport as security and that twenty-two of them do not even have a Corona test certificate. According to the new rules, they are also not allowed to leave the airport. According to Jahangir, "Now our only way back to Pakistan is to send a special flight to the Pakistani government to evacuate these trapped Pakistanis."
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| SOURCE: DW |
According to Mohammad Jahangir, diplomatic officials of Pakistan came to the airport, they listened to Pakistani travelers, gave them lunch, but they said that there was no immediate solution to the problem. Mohammad Jehangir added that Pakistani travelers from Korea, Malaysia and Laos have spent a day and a night in the waiting room only because of a hasty decision by the government of Pakistan.
Sadia Chowdhury, a Pakistani passenger at Bangkok airport, who was traveling from Cambodia to Pakistan, told DW that there were sick women among the passengers, and her medicines were in her baggage. , Toothpaste and brush are not available.
Saadiya Chaudhary, 27, from Hatti, in Azad Kashmir, fears that the influx of healthy travelers to the airport is also at risk of being infected by the virus.
Remember that more than 50 Pakistani passengers are also present at Kuala Lumpur airport and more than 100 passengers at Dubai airport.
Source: DW
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