Over 100 Indian nationals, mainly students, are trapped in two cities in Kyrgyzstan, which has been hit by ethnic violence for the last five days.
The external affairs ministry said here Monday that at least 116 Indian nationals are stranded in southern Kyrgyzstan, including 15 students in the city of Jalalabad and 99 students, a professor and a businessman in the city of Osh.
One ICCR professor and 77 Indian students were evacuated late Monday night to Bishkek and Indian efforts are on to evacuate the others.
An MEA statement said the Indian embassy in Bishkek, the Kyrgyz capital, is in close and regular touch with several Indian in the affected region as well as with Kyrgyz government departments and security agencies.
At least 117 people have been killed and over 1,485 wounded in spiralling ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan since June 10.
Indian diplomatic sources in Bishkek said the embassy is trying to organise a special aircraft to fly the stranded Indians out from Osh.
“As soon the situation permits, the Indians will be flown,” sources quoted by PTI said.
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Hafiz Saeed's arrest was raised at Foreign Secretary-level talks: MEA
India on Sunday asserted that the issue of arrest of Hafiz Saeed, one of the masterminds of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, did figure prominently during the Foreign Secretary-level talks here on February 25.
New Delhi also expressed surprise over the statement by Islamabad that the issue was not taken up at the parleys between Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and her Pakistan counterpart Salman Bashir.
“Saeed's activities including his recent vitriolic and venomous statements aimed at fomenting further acts of terrorism against India and the unhindered public space and freedom he enjoys in Pakistan was raised strongly by India during the Foreign Secretary-level talks,'' an External Affairs Ministry spokesman said in a statement here.
Responding to a question on the recent statement by Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, who claimed that India never demanded the arrest of the Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief, the spokesman said New Delhi had been demanding action since the barbaric and dastardly attacks.
“A dossier containing a compilation of evidence on the involvement of Hafiz Saeed in the terrorist attacks was handed over to Pakistan on August 21, last year and his name featured prominently in yet another dossier handed over to the Pakistan Foreign Secretary during the February 25 talks,'' the spokesman said.
New Delhi also expressed surprise over the statement by Islamabad that the issue was not taken up at the parleys between Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and her Pakistan counterpart Salman Bashir.
“Saeed's activities including his recent vitriolic and venomous statements aimed at fomenting further acts of terrorism against India and the unhindered public space and freedom he enjoys in Pakistan was raised strongly by India during the Foreign Secretary-level talks,'' an External Affairs Ministry spokesman said in a statement here.
Responding to a question on the recent statement by Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, who claimed that India never demanded the arrest of the Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief, the spokesman said New Delhi had been demanding action since the barbaric and dastardly attacks.
“A dossier containing a compilation of evidence on the involvement of Hafiz Saeed in the terrorist attacks was handed over to Pakistan on August 21, last year and his name featured prominently in yet another dossier handed over to the Pakistan Foreign Secretary during the February 25 talks,'' the spokesman said.
