A list of 21 Pakistani people who were recognized as survivors of a marine incident near Dakhla, Morocco, was released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) on Sunday.
According to the government, confirmed information was used to identify the survivors.
Muddassir Hussain, Waseem Khalid, Muhammad Khaliq, Abdul Ghaffar, Gul Shameer, Tanveer Ahmed, Syed Muhammad Abbas Kazmi, Ghulam Mustafa, Syed Badar Mohy ud din, Imran Iqbal, Shoaib Zafar, Ali Hassan, Syed Mehtab Ul Hassan, Uzair Basharat, Mohammad Asif, Mujahid Ali, Amir Ali, Mohammad Umar Farooqie, Bilawal Iqbal, Arsalan, and Irfan Ahmad are among the Pakistani nationals who survived.
A boat carrying undocumented migrants from the African country of Mauritania to Spain sank on January 16, causing the terrible event. Forty-four Pakistanis were among the fifty migrants who perished.