Karachi: Coronavirus

(asked on 21st April 2020) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he plans to schedule repatriation flights from Karachi in Pakistan to enable UK residents physically unable to undertake the 752-mile journey to Lahore or the 877-mile journey to Islamabad from Karachi to return home to the UK; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Nigel Adams Portrait
Nigel Adams
This question was answered on 1st May 2020

We continue to hold discussions with the Government of Pakistan to arrange further charter flights. On 26 April we announced that the first UK charter flight from Karachi will depart on 30 April. We have advised British nationals in Karachi looking to return to the UK to register interest, which can be found in the 'Return to the UK' page of our Pakistan travel advice: https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/pakistan/return-to-the-uk.

Reticulating Splines