Re: British ctizens in Pak asked to register with Embassy
No one left when the nuclear tension with india was high, or during kargil. Complete and utter lunacy to think about evacuation. lol. its not iraq or new orleans.
The United States has shut down its information centres to the public in Pakistan and is pulling out non-essential embassy workers.
The U.S. has warned Americans not to travel to Pakistan. It has temporarily closed information centres in the cities of Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore. The U.S. says it is scheduling additional flights for any Americans who want to leave the country
Families of U.S. diplomatic personnel and nonessential workers are packing up to leave Pakistan, after being ordered home by the U.S. State Department.
Citing threats against American interests, the order for U.S. staff to leave on Friday came less than a week after an attack on a church that killed five people, including two Americans.
Other Americans in the country were also encouraged to consider leaving in the second such action since the September 11 attacks on America.
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the Guardian – 23 May 02
The British government is drastically cutting the number of diplomats in Pakistan and warning thousands of British citizens to leave after suicide bomb threats from Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network or one of the Pakistan-based groups allied to it.
The British government is drastically cutting the number of diplomats in Pakistan and warning thousands of British citizens to leave after suicide bomb threats from Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network or one of the Pakistan-based groups allied to it.
Diplomats, aid workers and other government staff will begin evacuating with their families within days. The foreign secretary, Jack Straw, ordered British government representation to be reduced from 250 to 90. The Foreign Office also issued a warning against travel to Pakistan other than for essential purposes.
Re: British ctizens in Pak asked to register with Embassy
X2, so did you get the lowdown?
talked to my dad, he said the embassy is taking precautionary measures due to potential volatility before, during and after elections. They just need to know where their citizens are in the event they need to provide them help if things go bad.
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per my dad's logic..pray and realize that unless you get out in a matter of hours, you are responsible for yourelf.
having lived through Nigerian civil war, he saw mass evacuations first hand, did not go with teh brits (workaholism ki bhi had hoti hai) finally as Pakistan ovt started airlifting its ppl out, he had mum leave, because he wanted to stay back and finish off a few quick things and then got stuck, airports were closed, borders sealed..He had to hide, pull favours from ppl and walk, take those banana boats in rivers, hike and finally get on some sailboat with others to brave the sea and go to the next country and then showed up at UK embassy who then had him repatriated to UK. meanwhile my mum was in Pakistan with no word from him for months and thinking the worse happened. Exciting lives they have had :)
This story sounds familiar..........Same thing happened with my dad during the first gulf war..He stayed thruout the war in Kuwait and we had no clue about his whereabouts till he contacted us thru the US army after two months.
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that must have been something. I have heard of other kuwait cases as well. in my dad's case, i was not born so I only hear the stories, I suppose in your case u dealt with the uncertainty and stress personally. must have been tough.
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that must have been something. I have heard of other kuwait cases as well. in my dad's case, i was not born so I only hear the stories, I suppose in your case u dealt with the uncertainty and stress personally. must have been tough.
Those were sometimes........I was an eighth grader then. My dad sent my mom, me and along with my brother on a bus to port city-Basra, Iraq from were we boarded a ship(Akbar, a Indian haj liner) to Dubai. From Dubai we were evacuated to Mumbai and then boarded a train to Delhi. The whole ordeal took us seven days. My father was not allowed to leave Kuwait, because he was the only Senior Mechanical engineer who knew to run the power plant in Kuwait. The Iraqis were good to him and had issued him a VIP ID which avoided trouble frm the Iraqi forces. They had a makeshift Indian embassy at my school were some Pakistanis were issued Indian passport to escape from Kuwait as Iraqis were very hostile to Pakis. There were stories about the Iraqi forces killing Pakis left right and center. I remember meeting few Pakistanis in the ship, and I wonder how they would have travelled to Pakistan or maybe they are still in India living their life as an Indian. At the powerplant where my father worked, the Iraqis had planted explosives and had plans to blow it up before they left Kuwait. They told my father that he would be given ample time to evacuate from the premises if they had plans to blow it up. When the US Army liberated Kuwait, my dad witnessed thosands of dead Iradi soldiers on the streets of Kuwait (Most of the Iraqi soldiers were high school kids with an AK-47). I had too witnessed Kuwaiti resistance fighting with the Iraqi soldiers and saw gunshots fired every other day. At eleven years of age, there is more of excitement than fear of lil' battles. After the US army liberated Kuwait, my father contacted my brother in US thru them who inturn informed us in India that he was safe and sound after two months of ongoing war.
Re: British ctizens in Pak asked to register with Embassy
This says nothing about evacuation right now. What the heck?
Who said there is an evacuation right now?
British embassy has asked all its citizens to register
that is done when govt feels there is a higher risk of instability.
first step..
if the risk starts materializing, then ppl are asked to be ready, asked to leave and in worst situatiosn airlifted out.
several times in the 90s my folks were asked to be ready to leave depending on how the situation plays out. but things never got so bad that the embassy actually had to take them out. they were advised at one time to leave though.
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It was not an article but an ad taken out by British High Commission in newspapers. My dad saw it in Nov 25th edition of Jang, front page, left side 4X6 inch ad.
ppl can registyer email and mobile phone for sms as well to get any emergency info.
