Lahore: The Chairman of Ansar Burney Trust International and former Federal Minister for human rights, Ansar Burney said that the special rescue flight of ‘Buraq Air’ with 180 rescued Pakistanis and 2 dead bodies from Libya reached Lahore on Friday night.
Ansar Burney said that almost 7,000 (Seven Thousand) stranded Pakistanis have already arrived home in Pakistan, but the rescue flights were temporarily stopped because of Hajj and Eid-ul-Adha. The Ansar Burney Trust International has thanked Pakistan Government specially President Mamnoon Hussain, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif for resuming rescue flights and bringing back remaining Pakistanis trapped in the ongoing civil war in Libya.
Ansar Burney once again appreciated the morale, passion, courage and patriotic spirit of Ambassador Lt. General (Retd) Javed Zia, Defence Attaché Brigadier Imran Mushtaq and Second Secretary Liaquat Waraich and all staff who put their lives on stake and chose to stay in Libya to save and evacuate all Pakistanis from Libya, despite the fact that other embassies had already abandoned Libya owing to worst condition of law and order.
Ansar Burney paid gratitude and appreciated the concern and immediate response from President Mamnoon Hussain, Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif, Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Prime Minister’s special Adviser Sirtaj Aziz, Special Assistant to PM Tariq Fatemi and Ambassador of Pakistan in Libya Lt. General (Retd) Javed Zia, to honor and respond the SOS call from Ansar Burney Trust and resume the chartered rescue flights to Libya, to bring back remaining Pakistanis home.
The ‘Ansar Burney Trust International’ has the honour to raise and to take-up this issue before the high authorities of Pakistan and it’s a good omen that the Government of Pakistan has taken the notice of our appeal and rescue flights has been arranged to save the lives of the miserable Pakistani fellows.