Islamabad (HRNW) Pakistan has won praise from several Indian nationals for helping Indian students as they tried to leave Ukraine, which has increasingly grown hostile to New Delhi after the Modi government refused to vote against Moscow.
On the other hand, Indian media claims that their national flag has helped Pakistani students cross border posts.
Indian nationals, including students, faced discrimination in Ukraine after their government refused to vote against Russia at a UN Security Council meeting on February 25. The decision led to Indian students being beaten at the Poland-Ukraine border allegedly by Ukrainian border guards.
In this situation, a group of Indian students left the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv and arrived in Lviv, a town 70 kilometres from the Poland border. But they could not find any Indian diplomat to help them there.
In a video shared by Sweden-based Indian professor Ashok Swain, an Indian student is heard saying that he and three others were sitting with Pakistani students because when they arrived in Lviv there were so many people and they could not find anyone from the Indian diplomatic mission to help them. “Only four of us are Indian. The rest of them all are Pakistanis. You can see,” the student says as he films several young people in what looks like a dining hall.
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi mentioned the viral video speaking to journalists in Sindh’s Mirpurkhas district where he led PTI’s march against the Sindh government.
Qureshi said that Indian students were given food and shelter by Pakistan embassy staff in Ukraine because “they are kids” and were in distress. “We did whatever was possible on humanitarian grounds,” he said.
Pakistan’s gesture has been welcomed by several Indian nationals living outside India.
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