Help Pakistani students stuck in China’s Wuhan: Imran Khan

TIL Desk/World/Islamabad/ Prime Minister Imran Khan has directed authorities to take every possible step to help Pakistani students stuck in China’s Wuhan, the epicentre of the deadly coronavirus, after mounting pressure about their fate. The government, however, has said that it would not evacuate its citizens from Wuhan in an attempt to stem the spread of the coronavirus which has killed over 1,000 people and infected nearly 50,000 since its outbreak.

“I have issued instructions to our Foreign Office and Overseas Ministry to do everything possible for our students who are stuck in Wuhan city,” Khan tweeted on Wednesday night. Khan also expressed support for China and promised to provide every help to combat the deadly virus. “Pakistan stands with the people and govt. of China in their difficult and trying time and it will always stand by them. We will be extending every material and moral support to China just as China has always stood by us during all our times of trial and tribulation,” he said in another tweet.

According the Foreign Office, more than 28,000 Pakistani students, including 500 in Wuhan, are studying in China. Some of them, have through social media had been persistently asking Pakistan government to help them come back. Pakistani students of a Chinese medical university got panicked as patients infected with the deadly virus were shifted to a building located near their university. Islamabad has contacted the Chinese authorities with the request to shift those patients somewhere else, according to the report, which did not name the university.