MUSCAT: Hundreds of Pakistani prisoners will be flown home from Oman after being freed in a Royal pardon, the embassy said on Tuesday.
According to Pakistan’s Ambassador KK Ahsan Wagan, 350 inmates will depart on two special flights that is scheduled to take off on Thursday, April 16 and April 17 to Lahore and Karachi respectively.
“It is to be noted that these two flights to Pakistan are specifically arranged to carry around 350 prisoners and detainees in the Sultanate, and no other passengers will be sent. The first flight is scheduled to take off from Muscat on April 16 to Lahore followed by another flight the next day to Karachi,” Wagan said in an interview with English daily Times of Oman.
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Of the total 350 inmates, 146 have been given Royal pardon. On their arrival, the former inmates will be quarantined at airport facilities. Wagan is hopeful of repatriating Pakistani nationals soon. “I am hopeful that soon we will also be operating the flights to carry other Pakistani nationals,” he added.
