Pakistani student Asma Shafique thanked the Indian embassy in Kyiv and Prime Minister Modi for evacuating her | Credit: ANI New Delhi: A Pakistani students rescued by Indian authorities is on her way to Western Ukraine for further evacuation out of the country. The student identified as Asma Shafique will be reunited with her family soon. “I am really thankful to the Indian Embassy of Kyiv and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for evacuating me. Thank you so much for support,” she told ANI.
#WATCH | Pakistan’s Asma Shafique thanks the Indian embassy in Kyiv and Prime Minister Modi for evacuating her.Sh… t.co/c2gIAkcoT7— ANI (@ANI) Mar 9, 2022Related NewsPakistani student, helped by India to evacuate from Ukraine, slams its embassy for doing nothingBuses arranged to evacuate Indian students from Kharkiv’s Pisochyn: India amid Russia-Ukraine conflictPak student stranded in Ukraine, dismisses embassy’s evacuation claims 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. “We are the future of Pakistan and this is how they treated us in this difficult time. When the war broke out, the university administration shifted those living in apartments to hostel basements. I stayed with some 120 students from Nigeria, China, India and even some local Ukrainians,” Arshad was quoted as saying by Dawn newspaper. 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 Pakistani foreign ministry’s claim that they evacuated 1,476 Pakistani nationals stranded in the conflict zone calling it “fake news”.‘Nepal did little to support its people stranded in Ukraine’ Similarly, a Nepali student Roshan Jha was evacuated by the Indian government from Kharkiv. Talking to The Kathmandu Post, Jha said that he had many Indian friends who helped him a lot. After knowing about ‘Operation Ganga’, he personally requested the evacuation team to include him as well through the Indian embassy in Poland. I am extremely thankful to the Indian government for evacuating me, Jha said adding that Nepal did little to support its people stranded in Ukraine. Jha is the first Nepali to have been evacuated from Ukraine by the Indian government. India has launched Operation Ganga to evacuate Indian nationals stranded in Ukraine and as of now about 18 thousand Indians have been brought back by special flights.