KARACHI: Nine more sailors of the 17 Pakistani crew members stu
ck on a ship anchored in Egypt’s Suez Canal for over three months returned home on Friday after intervention by the Pakistani embassy in Egypt.
The 17 workers had been stranded abroad for months after the Egyptian
government had report
edly confiscated their passports.
In the first week of January, four amongst those stranded had returned to Pakistan after intervention by diplomatic authoriti
es. A few weeks later, three additional sailors returned home.
“Nine of us have come back today. One [among the nine] has gone to Abu Dhabi, another has gone to Islamabad,” Mohammad Jameel, one of the sai
lors who returned home today, told the media after arriving at Karachi airport. Online
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