That they had gone throughout the border for medical remedy and left stranded because of countrywide 21-day lockdown . PHOTO: FILE
KARACHI: 5 Pakistani nationals, visiting India on medical visas, have returned house on Sunday by way of Wagah border after being stranded in Noida and New Delhi because of the countrywide 21-day lockdown imposed by the Modi authorities amidst coronavirus scare.
The people – recognized as Chaudhry Muhammad Ashfaq, Nighat Mukhtar, Yasir Mukhtar, Muhammad Khalid and Chaudhry Muhammad Asif – had gone throughout the border to the Indian capital, in search of medical remedy.
Earlier, a 12-year-old boy, Sabeeh Sheeraz, who had additionally gone for medical remedy to India alongside along with his mother and father and grandfather, additionally returned to Pakistan on March 20. The household additionally returned by way of Wagah border.
Modi seeks ‘forgiveness’ from India’s poor over coronavirus lockdown
The Pakistan Excessive Fee in New Delhi says it has remained in shut contact with the Indian facet in addition to the related authorities in Islamabad to make sure an expeditious and protected return of the Pakistani residents.
In response to Reuters, Prime Minister Narendra Modi requested the nation’s poor for forgiveness on Sunday, because the financial and human toll from his 21-day nationwide lockdown deepens and criticism mounts a couple of lack of satisfactory planning forward of the choice.
Modi introduced a 3 week-lockdown on Tuesday to curb the unfold of coronavirus. However the resolution has stung tens of millions of India’s poor, leaving many hungry and forcing jobless migrant laborers to flee cities and stroll a whole bunch of kilometres to their native villages.
“I would firstly like to seek forgiveness from all my countrymen,” Modi mentioned in a nationwide radio handle.
The poor “would definitely be thinking what kind of prime minister is this, who has put us into so much trouble,” he mentioned, urging individuals to know there was no different possibility.
“Steps taken so far… will give India victory over corona.”
The variety of confirmed coronavirus circumstances in India rose to 979 on Sunday, with 25 deaths.
