The Foreign Office on Thursday claimed seven Pakistani nationals drowned in a boat wreck near Libya’s port city Benghazi, a few days ago.
At a weekly briefing, FO spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said the embassy of Pakistan in Libya was facilitating the process of identification of the bodies.
Talking about a similar incident near Italy, she said 59 people died, including some children, when a wooden sailing boat carrying migrants crashed against rocks on the southern Italian coast early on Sunday. 0 seconds of 0 seconds
The FO spokesperson said bodies from both the accidents would be transported to Pakistan with the support of local authorities and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
She said the embassy and Foreign Affairs Ministry were in contact with the families of the deceased. link foreign visits
Ms Baloch mentioned that Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari would visit New York in the context of a conference on ‘Women in Islam: Understanding the rights and Identity of Women in the Islamic World’, being held on March 8.
As an initiative of the FM himself, she said, the conference is being convened by Pakistan in its capacity as the chair of the OIC Council of Ministers at the UN Headquarters on the sidelines of the 67th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women