Pakistan since February has ignored Hubei-based students' pleas to leave China as many other countries flew their citizens out.
ISLAMABAD - For more than a thousand Pakistani students stranded in the Chinese province of Hubei a gruelling lockdown lifted this week, but they must now decide whether to try to return to their home country where cases of coronavirus are rising rapidly.
In Pakistan, cases are increasing, standing at more than 4,000 on Friday with 66 deaths as the country implements lockdown measures and experts warn that crowding, poverty and weak healthcare infrastructure cause challenges throughout South Asia. Hassan said that the lockdown had taken a deep psychological toll, which, combined with his father's death plunged him into distress.
"I would like to go. Firstly, I will be with my family in this critical situation, secondly being a student I would like to serve my country," she said."It's more stressful for me to stay here while my family is in a critical zone."
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