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| Pakistanis trapped in Sudan: 'When bullets started falling in our factory, we decided that it is not appropriate to stay here anymore |
"while the bullets started falling in our manufacturing unit and the scenario started getting worse, we decided that it became no longer suitable for us to live in Sudan anymore." It turned into a difficult journey to the Pakistan house hooked up by way of the Embassy of Pakistan in the capital Khartoum. Now we are ready on the port to recognize when we can be introduced to Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) after which to Pakistan.
It's miles said that Ozheer Ahmed from the Swabi district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, is presently in Sudan Port and is anticipating the start of his sea adventure to Jeddah.
Zaheer Ahmad works with his brother inside the manufacturing facility of a Pakistani industrialist within the Kobar industrial region and has been living in Sudan for the past 3 years for employment.
In step with the Ministry of Overseas Affairs of Pakistan, the Pakistani embassy in Sudan is presenting help in the evacuation of Pakistanis residing right here and the evacuation of Pakistanis is ongoing.
In a tweet made a while ago, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that a delivery sporting 37 Pakistanis has arrived in Jeddah from Port Sudan.
In advance, foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari stated that a convoy of 211 Pakistanis has reached Port Sudan thoroughly. He thanked the friendly nations of the region, particularly Saudi Arabia, for presenting centers for the evacuation of Pakistanis caught in Sudan.
The main airport of the capital Khartoum is the center of those fierce clashes and is under the manipulation of the paramilitary organization RSF.
This is the purpose why the Sudan port in the Red Sea is being diverted for evacuation, that's positioned 850 km from Khartoum.
In the meantime, several countries have conducted operations to evacuate their citizens from Sudan. Saudi Arabia facilitated the evacuation of 150 people, along with overseas diplomats, from Sudan through delivery.
Ozheer Ahmed and a convoy of around 427 humans, inclusive of some families, are staying in a Pakistani embassy building in Port Sudan. This convoy reached Port Sudan on Monday after an extended adventure, even as the second convoy, which includes 211 human beings, reached Port Sudan on Tuesday.
The 1/3 convoy including Pakistanis started its journey on Tuesday night. There may be no records of approximately how many human beings are involved. In keeping with Pakistanis looking forward to evacuation in Sudan, some people are even traveling standing whilst there is no area to sit in the bus convoy. He's expected to arrive in Port Sudan sometime on Wednesday night.
Ozheer Ahmed and his colleagues do now not understand whilst their adventure to Saudi Arabia will start. Regardless of the contract, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Pakistan and the embassy in Sudan has not given any information about this.
The embassy in Sudan stated that they're currently very busy helping the Pakistanis to evacuate and that all the records in this regard are to be had with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Pakistan.
"When the battle began, none people desired to go away from our jobs, but a week before Eid, matters started out to worsen," says Uzheer Ahmad. Missiles and rockets had been heard all of the time, and government navy jets had been also flying within the skies.
He said that there has been a military supermarket after our factory, and bombs have been also dropped there. Now the scenario had reached this kind of factor that the bullets started falling into our factory, so the proprietor said to prevent the work and make arrangements to go back.
Stopped at 15 places during the journey
Ozheer Ahmed says that the Pakistani embassy created a WhatsApp group for Pakistanis and announced that individuals who desired to go back to Pakistan would be assisted and have to reach Pakistan residence in Khartoum.
He said that the owner of the manufacturing unit positioned us in an automobile and all of us went together. Apparently, our adventure to Pakistan's house turned into now not tough, but in the course of this time, anti-authorities armed agencies had mounted their take look at posts at numerous places. They would prevent the car at each check submission, ask for human beings' identification, and see which u. s. We belong to.
Ozheer Ahmed stated that in the adventure we were stopped at 15 locations. After seeing the Pakistani identification card, they allow us to go to one or check posts. They requested us if there were no Egyptian citizens among us. On suspicion, he additionally checked the documents of a few passengers after which allow them to go.
Muhammad Ahsan Sami is a chemical engineer and has traveled to Sudan Port along with his own family. Speaking to the BBC, he stated that it's far very hard to journey in Sudan in the interim. The first trouble is the non-availability of buses, those that are available demand excessive fares, the second trouble is the non-availability of petrol and diesel.
He stated that the buses on which we traveled charged exorbitant fares. In this manner, these bus drivers also acquired gas by unconventional methods.
Muhammad Ahsan Sami said that the non-governmental forces have taken refuge inside the civilian populace. Heavy weapons are also hidden there. Every now and then it is announced that there's a ceasefire, but in exercise, it does no longer appear, firing maintains all the time.
Because of these conditions, we reached Port Sudan after a hard adventure of about 24 hours. Wherein we had been accommodated in a building.
Muhammad Ahsan Sami and Ozhir Ahmed have been fortunate enough to discover an area to live in Port Sudan. But the contributors of the second caravan have been no longer so lucky and are nevertheless busy looking to arrange accommodation.
Abdullah belongs to Peshawar. He has reached Port Sudan along with any other convoy. He explains that 'plenty of time has handed seeing that we arrived at Port Sudan and the folks that had been with their households had been given accommodation however the relaxation of the humans have now not been furnished with any lodging facilities.'
He said that we're trying to find a place to stay on our very own, but there's no indication yet that we can be capable of discovering a place to live. The humans of the embassy are announcing that they're additionally attempting.
Abdullah says that the Pakistani embassy has no longer taken any money from us for hire. Good enough food and drink also are being supplied. It changed into a difficult time wherein having this facility become a great assist. However now there's no house, so how can they stay under the open sky? I do not even recognize how many days and nights I will need to live here.
In this regard, touch has been made with the Pakistani embassy in Sudan and the spokesperson of the Ministry of Overseas Affairs, however, they did now not give any reaction.
But Muhammad Ahsan Sami says that this is a battle state of affairs. There's a hurry of foreigners at Port Sudan. It would not seem that any building has been vacated there. In this way, in these conditions, the rents and fees of everything have increased and the banks are also closed, it's miles difficult to manipulate money in this kind of situation.
Abdullah agrees that obtaining cash in Sudan has also come to be tough. But he says that this case is unsightly. This case can cause injuries. There may be incidents of looting beneath the open sky. We did not take out our cell phones during the complete journey so that no one would steal them.
"Pakistanis have additionally been sufferers of looting"
Uzheer Ahmed says that there have been incidents of theft with a few Pakistanis in these instances. The match manufacturing unit of a Pakistani industrialist has been looted.
Muhammad Ahsan Sami says that an incident has also come about inside the metal factory of a Pakistani. In this manner, they entered some humans' homes by jumping over the partitions. Cooked meals, ration, cell telephone, and whatever cash they had were stolen from these people.
Uzheer Ahmed says that there are Pakistanis with us whose passports etc. Had been taken away at some point during the theft. No Pakistani suffered much loss because every person knew that this may take place, so that they did not preserve a lot of coins, and so on.
For those whose passports were confiscated or lost, their passports are being organized via the Pakistani diplomatic group of workers at Port Sudan.
What's happening in Sudan?
After the civil struggle in Sudan's capital Khartoum and lots of different elements of the united states, lifestyles have unexpectedly taken a very dramatic turn from terrible to worse.
At its middle are generals: Abdul Fattah al-Barhan, head of the Sudanese armed forces SAF, and well-known Muhammad Hamdan Daqloo, called 'Hamideti', head of the paramilitary 'rapid aid Forces – RSF.
Each of them has worked collectively in the Navy and now they have got rebelled collectively. Now their conflict for supremacy is affecting Sudan badly.
It ought to be remembered that the military has been in power for most of the publish-independence history of Sudan.
Lots of people were killed to date in this ongoing civil war and conflict for supremacy.