According to official sources, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has started a special aircraft operation to return more than 150 Pakistanis who were left stranded in Iran following the shutdown of Iranian airspace.
The stranded Pakistanis were flown from Iran’s Mashhad city to Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan, by a special PIA Airbus A320 plane that took off from Peshawar.
Due to regional travel difficulties, the Pakistani nationals, including Tehran residents and relatives of embassy staff stationed in Iran, had been stranded for a number of days. The Pakistani embassy in Tehran reportedly worked with local authorities to assist their transfer from Iran to Turkmenistan.
