Pardafas Reporter
Indian students being rescued by Indian Air Force, under operation Ganga an rescue operation by the government of India.
‘Hello I’m Asma Shafique, and I am from Pakistan. I am really thankful to the Indian Embassy of Kyiv , for supporting us all the way here, as we were stuck in a very difficult situation. I also want to thank the Prime Minister of India for supporting us. Hope we get home safely because of the Indian embassy,” said a Pakistani medical student at Sumy State Medial College in a video by popular news agency ‘Asian News International’.
Shafique’s statement came after receiving support from the Indian teams who were able to bring her and hundereds others to safer place from the war-stricken city in Ukraine, which is fighting back invasion from Russia. She is now en route Western Ukraine for further evacuation out of the country, after which she will be reunited with her family.
India has been able to set an exemplary work of evacuating not only all Indian nationals stuck in the war infected Ukraine. Moreover, it has also been able rescue hundreds of Nepalis, Bangladeshi and Pakistani nations from there, through its rescue mission ‘Operation Ganga’, operated in joint effort of India’s Ministry of Foreign Affaris and Indian Air Force.
Ukraine is under attack by Russia for the last two weeks where Russian troops have started marching towards the capital by capturing the cities under its grip.
Neighboring countries like Nepal has also requested India to help evacuate its citizens. So far three Nepali nationals from Ukraine were rescued upon a request from the Non Resident Nepali Association (NRNA), which is coordinating with the Nepal government to evacuate its citizens.
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina thanked her Indian counterpart yesterday for rescuing 13 of her country's residents from war-torn Ukraine.
India has said the Operation Ganga’ nears its completion with the return of final-batch of Indians nationals stuck in Sumy, yesterday. With the successful rescues of mostly stranded students of various countries, praises are pouring in for India for its timely action and effective diplomacy.
The Indian authorities started evacuating its stranded citizens and students from India’s neighboring countries from Sumy to Poltava after Russia announced a temporary ceasefire providing humanitarian corridors in Kyiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Mariupoll, the major strongholds of Ukraine.
The human corridor in Sumy was announced after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to the Presidents of Ukraine and Russia to provide a safe passage to evacuate the remaining Indian students who were stuck in Sumy, as per Times of India.
Nearly 17,000 Indians have been evacuated from Ukraine to safe places in neighboring countries since the Government of India began issuing advisories under ‘Operation Ganga’. It is set to bring back the stranded students through Indian Air Force planes, as well as commercial airline. Media outlets in India have reported that the government has been pressing commercial airline into service with more than seven flights a day between Ukraine’s neighbors and India.
