Combating Coronavirus: Govt repatriates over 64,000 stranded Pakistanis from 50 countries.

ISLAMABAD -- The government has so far repatriated more than 64,000 stranded Pakistanis from 50 countries, with thousands still stuck at the foreign shores, looking for their return amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Nevertheless, the evacuation of such a large number of stranded nationals is a feather in the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government's cap, which took lead in launching the world's largest repatriation operation soon after the imposition of travel restrictions worldwide to contain the coronavirus spread.

As of June 11, at least 64,855 Pakistanis were brought to the country shores via air and land routes, said a document shared by the Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development (OP and HRD) on Sunday.

Out of total, 60,526 were brought to the country under special flight operations, whereas repatriation of 4,329 Pakistanis was done via land borders of India, Afghanistan and Iran.

The GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) countries remained a main focus for the government where a whooping number of expats were still stuck due to limited number of flights operated by Pakistan.

Some 25,514 (Including 460 prisoners) were evacuated from the United Arab Emirates, followed by Saudi Arabia from where 8,740 (Including 480 Umrah zaireens and 195 detainees) brought back to the country.

Similarly, 4,406 were repatriated form Qatar, 4,301 form the United Kingdom, 2,987 from Afghanistan (via land route) and...