RAWALPINDI: All 259 Pakistani students stranded in Kyrgyzstan have safely landed back home on two C-130 aircraft at the Chaklala Airbase on Tuesday.Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Chairman General (retd) Nadeem Ahmed and other senior officials received the students at the airbase.The first flight reached the Chaklala Airbase at 4am, bringing back 132 students and two children. The second flight brought back 127 students at 5pm. The surroundings of the Chaklala Airbase were jam packed with parents and relatives of students. Greeting the parents and students, Kaira said the government kept its promise to bring the students back safely. He felt grieved at the death of a student, Ali Raza, who was killed by a stray bullet in Kyrgyzstan.Talking to reporters, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, who received the second batch of students, said bringing back the Pakistani nationals stranded in Kyrgyzstan safely was the top priority of the government. He said President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani took keen interest in this matter.“We are in contact with the Kyrgyzstan government for the safe return of the remaining Pakistanis. The Pakistan’s ambassador to Kyrgyzstan has been directed to contact all Pakistanis so that if they wanted to come back, the government of Pakistan will make necessary arrangements,” the foreign minister added.Answering a question, he said as the situation in Kyrgyzstan improved, the government would discuss the issue of completion of the education of the students there. Qureshi said initially the PAF had arranged three C-130 aircraft to fly back the stranded Pakistanis, however, more planes could be managed if needed.The NDMA deputy director (operation) told The News that all students had reached their native towns from the Chaklala Airbase safely. “Some students, including girls, did not have money to buy tickets for going back to their native towns, and the NDMA arranged tickets for them,” he added.He said the names of 35 students were missing in the list of the second flight due to some reasons. “We will contact the Foreign Office to confirm the names of these students. However, all students have been reached their hometowns safely,” he said.Meanwhile, moving scenes were witnessed when Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi received the body of Ali Raza, who was killed in ethnic riots in Kyrgyzstan. Qureshi handed over the body of Ali Raza to his father, Abdul Qayyum, at the Chaklala Airbase on Tuesday.The funeral prayer for Ali Raza, 23, will be offered in his native town Shorkot at 9am today (Wednesday), his father announced. The body of Ali Raza was brought back by the second flight of C-130 which landed at the Chaklala Airbase at 5pm. Ali Raza had been studying in Kyrgyzstan for the last two years. The family members, including his three sisters, mother, father, other relatives and students, were wailing on the occasion. Names of 92 students arrived from Kyrgyzstan on June 15 by the evening flight: Abdul Qayyum, Sajid Iqbal, Atif Kamal, Hamidur Rehman, Sohail, Wajid Khan Muhammad Numan, Raziq Ullah, Javed Shafqat, Abdul Munir, Ali Hassan, Attaul Manan, Najeebur Rehman, Muhammad Ismail, Sajid Hussain, Abdul Wahid, Amanullah, Muhammad Naveed, Saqib Latif, Waseem Akram, Elrira, Luiza Arif, Zareena Arif, Faheem Mehdi, Muhammad Nadeem, Muhammad Azeem, Ali Dawood, Qadeer Ahmed, Muhammad Ejaz, Zohaib Akbar, Husnain Khan, Fakhar Abu Talib, Sajjad Hussain, Arslan Tariq, Shahid Imran, Waqas Ahmed, Haroon Butt, Murad Ali, Abdullah Rai Bilal, Hafiz Muhammad Zubair, Sibghatullah Watto, Alam Zeb, Muhammad Akmal Hussain, Khalid Hassan, Yasir Ammar, Attaullah, Muhammad Abdullah, Muhammad Waqas Younis, Sajid Ali, Ahsan Shaukat, Mujahid Jamil, Arooj Abbas Rahat, Jamal Nasir, Israr Ali Shah, Ishtiaq Ahmed, Iuldsheva Umida, Riazullah Khan, Anwar Zaman, Ali Raza, Fahim Sher, Aurangzeb, Ahmed Bakhsh, Aziza, Muhammad Usman, Abdul Wahab, Iftikhar Alam, Imtiaz, Noor Zaman Khan, Abdyrazarova Dinara, Anis, Muhammad Waleed, Aqib Ali Khan, Fareedullah, Babar Zaman, Amir Khan, Kamalova Dildara, Attaul Hamid Rashid, Shabbir Ahmed, Imtinova Makhfuza, Yasmin, Muhammad Qasim, Sara Javed, Muhammad Asim Javed, Tokotosunwa, Fizza Fatima, Shah Azan, Nomanjanva, Zhoroeva Dilniza, Muhammad Waseem, Muhammad Shahid Alam, Muhammad Asif Javed, Nomajanova.A total 127 people have arrived, however, the names of remaining 35 people have not been confirmed.

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