KARACHI:Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) on Thursday announced that it would to send two special flights to Cairo to repatriatePakistanis stuck in Egypt during the civil unrest.
Express 24/7 reportsthe flights are scheduled to leave at 8pm and 10:30 pm today and return by tomorrow (Friday).
The Pakistan Embassy in Cairo has confirmed there are around 150 Pakistani families living in Egypt.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani had earlier ordered the defence ministry to bring back families and non-essential staff of the embassy by aspecial aircraft dispatched to Cairo.
Several countries, including the United States and India, have already sent commercial airplanes to Cairo tobring back their citizens from Egypt.
As many as 300 people may have been killed in Egypts anti-government unrest which erupted on January 25, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said on Tuesday.
On Thursday, the tenth day of protests, thousands of protesters stood their ground against stone-throwing loyalists.
Tens of thousands of protesters have said they will go ahead with plans for a massive demonstration on Friday, their designated departure day for Mubarak.
Faced with the biggest protests of his presidency, Mubarak is holding onto power after appointing Suleiman as his first-ever vice president and announcing he will not seek re-election in September.
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