PESHAWAR: A complete of 461 college students arrived from Bishkek in two completely different flights that landed at Bacha Khan Worldwide Airport right here on Wednesday, officers mentioned.
They mentioned that the primary ER-1786 particular flight of Serene Air, which was despatched by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa authorities, landed on the airport round 1:52am on Wednesday with 288 college students on board.
Officers mentioned that the second flight, PK-6265, carrying 173 college students from Bishkek landed on the facility at 11:20am. They added that the scholars have been welcomed by the provincial authorities.
A press release later issued by Provincial Catastrophe Administration Authority (PDMA) mentioned that Chief Minister Ali Amin Khan Gandapur, provincial ministers, authorities officers and director common of PDMA have been current on the airport to obtain the scholars. It added that folks of the scholars have been additionally current on the airport.
“PDMA supplied transportation facility to college students. The scholars, who’re nonetheless stranded in Kyrgyzstan, are nonetheless being listed,” it mentioned.
One other assertion issued from the chief minister’s secretariat mentioned that the scholars, belonging to different components of the nation, have been residing at Chief Minister’s Home. It added that they’d be departing for his or her respective areas immediately (Thursday) and authorities would pay their transportation expenses.
In the meantime, the provincial authorities accused the federal authorities of refusing to permit a particular flight to deliver the scholars stranded in Bishkek.
“We’ve got made all the required preparations to deliver the scholars again however the federal authorities, to be extra exact, Federal Minister for Defence Khwaja Muhammad Asif has been hurdling the operation,” KP authorities’s spokesperson Barrister Mohammad Ali Saif advised Daybreak.
He mentioned that the primary particular flight was scheduled to depart from Allama Iqbal Worldwide Airport for Bishkek at 2pm on Wednesday that was refused permission to depart and convey again the scholars.
“This airplane was scheduled to depart at 2pm nevertheless it by no means received the permission. Now they are saying it’s going to depart at 5am on Thursday morning,” mentioned Mr Saif. He added that provincial authorities supplied all of the required paperwork however federal authorities was obstructing the operation for evacuation of stranded college students in Bishkek.
He mentioned that these elected on Type-47 have been politicising each difficulty. He mentioned that kinfolk of scholars in Bishkek have been nervous for them.
Revealed in Daybreak, Could twenty third, 2024