Power of Tricolour – Tricolour helps Pakistani, Turkish students to escape from Ukraine
New Delhi. Indian students who arrived in the city of Bucharest in Romania narrated the incident while talking to the private media house. The national tricolour helped them as well as some Pakistani and Turkish students in safely crossing the various checkpoints in the war-torn country.
It seems like students of Pakistan and Turkey stuck in Ukraine now have understood the power of India’s national tricolour as when their own country refused to help them, they used India’s national tricolour to cross into the neighbouring countries of Ukraine.
“We were told in Ukraine that being Indians and carrying Indian flag, we won’t have any problems,” said a medical student who arrived from Odesa in Southern Ukraine. The students narrated how they bought spray paints from the markets to prepare Indian flags. “I ran to the market, bought some colour sprays and a curtain. I then cut the curtain and spray-painted it to make the Indian tricolour,” said a student.
They added that even some Pakistani and Turkish students passed checkpoints using the Indian flag. “The Turkish and Pakistani students were also using the Indian flag,” a student said.
“We booked the bus from Odesa and came to the Molodova border. The Moldovan citizens were very nice. They provided us with free accommodation and taxis and buses to get to Romania,” a student said.
The Pakistani government has refused to pay heed to the Pakistani students stranded in Ukraine. Videos of Pakistani students bemoaning their government’s failure to assist them have surfaced on social media. In one such video, a Pakistani student is heard lamenting that their government is not bothered about them and has left them alone in a time of crisis.
“Indians are better off than us, we are paying the price of being Pakistanis,” rued the distressed student.
One of the students, while speaking to Pakistani news channel ARY News, expressed her disappointment with the lack of initiative displayed by the Imran Khan government as compared to that exhibited by the Modi government in evacuating Indian students.
As per the Pakistani media house, more than 1,500 Pakistanis, including 500 students, are currently stuck in the war-torn country.
It should be noted, last week, the Indian government issued an advisory for the Indian nationals stuck in Ukraine and asked them to carry the national flag on their vehicles for safety. The government has advised that students who were travelling by road to the borders of Ukraine should display the Indian flag prominently on the vehicles.
As per reports, Russians have given an assurance that Indians will not be harmed provided they displayed their national flag on their vehicle. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who assured that Indians would be allowed to move out of Ukraine safely.
