The Foreign Office said on Saturday that it has established a hotline to facilitate contact with the stranded Pakistani students and community members in China’s coronavirus-hit Wuhan.
The development came a day after the Islamabad High Court heard a petition filed by the parents of the Pakistani students stuck in China. The High court, while stating that it would not interfere with the state policy, had asked the government to provide concrete assurance to the families of those affected. Today, FO spokesperson Aisha Farooqui announced on Twitter that it had established a hotline to facilitate the parents or guardians of the Pakistani students.
@ForeignOfficePk has established hotline to facilitate parents/guardians of Pakistani students & community members effected by Coronavirus in Wuhan.
Syed Qalb-e-Abbas
Dy Director (China-II)
+92-51-9223643 (9am to 5pm)
0321-5810471 (WhatsApp)
Email: qalabi.shah@gmail.com 1/2— Spokesperson MoFA (@ForeignOfficePk) February 15, 2020
But the question remains, will the students be evacuated? The government has made no movie to evacuate the 1000 plus students stuck in Wuhan. The students, their parents have pleaded with the government but the government has made no move. Other countries such as India, US, Britain and Japan have evacuated their citizens from the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak- Wuhan.