Coronavirus: 20,000 Pakistanis in UAE await flights home – The National

Coronavirus: 20,000 Pakistanis in UAE await flights home – The National

Coronavirus: 20,000 Pakistanis in UAE await flights home. Pakistani officials in Dubai said they were waiting for permission to begin chartered flights. More than 20,000 Pakistanis remain in the UAE awaiting repatriation flights home.. "We are waiting permission from our government, which is expected soon.. "After that, our special flight operations will start.. On April 11, 127 Pakistanis in Azerbaijan were flown home on a special flight with Pakistan International Airlines.. Last Friday, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, the country's foreign minister, said the government had organised nine other chartered flights.. "We are gradually increasing our testing and quarantine facilities," he said..