Evacuation of Pakistani citizens from Yemen | |
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Part of Yemeni Civil War (2014–present) | |
Type | Civil military operations |
Location | |
Planned by | Government of Pakistan Pakistan Navy |
Objective | Humanitarian relief |
Date | 26 March 2015 | - 29 March 2015
Executed by | Pakistan International Airlines |
Outcome | Around 503 Pakistani citizens evacuated from Yemen |
The evacuation of Pakistani citizens was a civil-military combined effort by Pakistan to extract and evacuate overseas Pakistanis from war-torn areas of Yemen.[1]
According to Ministry of Human Resource Development of Pakistan, there were ~3,000 overseas Pakistanis residing in Yemen prior to the Saudi Arabian-led military intervention in Yemen.[2] In response to the Yemeni crises, the Pakistan government authorized the Pakistan International Airlines to launch of the special flights for aerial evacuation while the Pakistan Navy evacuated the remaining stranded Pakistanis with two frigates.[3]
Besides the evacuation of overseas Pakistanis, citizens of China and the United Kingdom among other countries were also evacuated by Pakistan.[4] Approximately, ~1,800 Pakistan's citizens were extracted from Yemen and safely returned to Pakistan, before the conflict escalated.[5][6]