The Foreign Office on Thursday claimed seven Pakistani nationals drowned ina boat wreck near Libya’s port city Benghazi, a few days ago.
At a weekly briefing, FO spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said the embassyof Pakistan in Libya was facilitating the process of identification of thebodies.
Talking about a similar incident near Italy, she said 59 people died,including some children, when a wooden sailing boat carrying migrantscrashed 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 betransported to Pakistan with the support of local authorities and theInternational Committee of the Red Cross.
She said the embassy and Foreign Affairs Ministry were in contact with thefamilies of the deceased.link foreignvisits
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Ms Baloch mentioned that Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari wouldvisit New York in the context of a conference on ‘Women in Islam:Understanding the rights and Identity of Women in the Islamic World’, beingheld on March 8.
As an initiative of the FM himself, she said, the conference is beingconvened by Pakistan in its capacity as the chair of the OIC Council ofMinisters at the UN Headquarters on the sidelines of the 67th Session ofthe United Nations Commission on the Status of Women
