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| Operate direct flights from Dubai, Saudi to evacuate J&K residents: Bukhari | | |  EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, May 11: Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) president Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari on Monday urged the Centre to operate direct flights from the UAE and Saudi Arabia to Srinagar to bring home its stranded residents.
Bukhari said there are around 1000 residents of J&K, who are stuck in Dubai and similarly around 700 people are unable to return their homes from Saudi Arabia because of the COVID-19 lockdown.
“These stranded people including businessmen, employees and labourers have already submitted their travel details to Indian embassy in both the countries and are waiting for help. I solicit personal intervention of the Home Minister to order operationalization of direct flights from Dubai and Saudi Arabia to Srinagar so that these helpless citizens are able to return to their homes without any further delay,” Bukhari said in a statement issued here on Monday.
Similarly, he said that hundreds of J&K residents mostly students are stuck up in Germany, Netherland, France, Spain, Ukraine, Thailand, Turkey and central Asian countries like Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Moscow and are waiting for evacuation by their respective Indian embassies.
“While it is highly appreciable that special flights were operated to evacuate J&K students from Dhaka, Bangladesh, the same facility be extended to other J&K residents who are stuck up in other countries as soon as possible,” Bukhari demanded.
The JKAP president also demanded that all J&K residents who are evacuated from different countries be kept under quarantine in their home state and not delay their return by subjecting them to this mandatory process in New Delhi.
“Also there are some J&K residents especially patients who are stuck up in Mumbai and other parts of the country who are ready to bear the airfare to return their homes. Such stranded people be facilitated with special flights for their early evacuation,” he demanded.
The JKAP president urged the Lieutenant Governor GC Murmu to order evacuation of labourers, tourists and traders of different states of the country who are stranded in various parts of J&K. Similarly, he demanded immediate shifting of inhabitants of Gurez who are stuck up in various parts of Kashmir division particularly in Bandipora, Kangan and Srinagar while he also sought evacuation of residents of J&K who are stranded in Leh. |
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