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The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has said it has been contacted by 6,000 short-term travellers in Pakistan who want to return home to the UK, confirming suspicions that the country is one of the blackspots for British nationals stranded because of the coronavirus pandemic, Lisa O’Carroll reports.
It said it estimates that there are as many as 100,000 British nationals in Pakistan, confirming a recent tweet by the high commissioner.
Learning new ways of working – all @ukinpakistan staff join a virtual meeting; thanking the 50 people working double shifts (over 1000 hours) to support the most vulnerable of 6,000 requests received from nationals in pic.twitter.com/2vlFSn04XF
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