Islamabad:
The Vice Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ishaq Dar, confirmed that 450 Pakistani pilgrims have been successfully evacuated from Iran, stating that the government was taking all the necessary measures to guarantee the safety of Pakistani citizens in the region.
In a statement published in X on Sunday, GIV said that the evacuation of 450 Pakistani pilgrims from Iran was completed on Saturday. He added that arrangements are also being made for the safe evacuation of the first lot of 154 Pakistani students stranded in Iran.
The Foreign Minister declared that efforts are being made to evacuate and guarantee the safe accommodation of the Pakistani stranded in Iraq.
“Our Embassy in Iraq is in contact with the Pakistani Zaireen that is stranded due to the closure of the airspace. The measures are underway to guarantee their safe stay in Iraq and the possible evacuation,” said Dar. A 24 -hour crisis management unit (CMU) is active in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to help Pakistani citizens. CMU can be contacted at +92 51-9207887 or by email to [email protected]. “Our embassies in the region are closely coordinating all the necessary efforts to support Pakistani citizens and Zaireen,” he added.
In the early hours of Friday, Israel launched an attack against Iran, aimed at the country’s nuclear facilities, ballistic missile factories and military personnel. The assault marked the beginning of what Israel described as a prolonged military commitment, carried out under the pretext of preventing Tehran to develop a nuclear weapon.
Seventy -eight people, including six senior nuclear and general scientists of the body of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), were killed in the attack. Tasnim’s semi -official news agency identified scientists as Abdulhamid Minouchehr, Ahmadreza Zolfaghari, Seyyed Amirhossein Faqhi, Motablizadeh, Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi and Ferydoun Abbasi.
Iranian ballistic missile attacks killed three people and wounded at least 91 in the center of Israel, in response to Israeli air attacks aimed at key nuclear and military sites within Iran.
In the suburb of Ramat Gan of Tel Aviv, nine buildings were destroyed and hundreds of apartments were damaged, Haaretz reported. Approximately 400 residents were evacuated from the main area of Tel Aviv due to structural damage.
The images showed generalized devastation, including fire vehicles and flattened residential blocks.
