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Sunday 29 Mar 2015 - 14:18 Makkah mean time-9-6-1436  Pakistan 747 jumbo plane Islamabad, (IINA) - Pakistan is flying jumbo jets to the Middle Eastern country Yemen in order to evacuate hundreds of nationals, Reuters reported Quoting a defence ministry official as saying on Sunday.
From its side, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia evacuated dozens of diplomats from Yemen on Saturday and the United Nations pulled out international staff after a third night of Saudi-led air strikes trying to stem the advance of Houthi fighters.
"The Saudi civil aviation authorities had given us clearance to send our passenger planes to Yemen," a Defence Ministry official told Reuters.
"In the first step, two jumbo jets will be sent to Yemen Sunday to bring back the Pakistanis."
A convoy of 600 Pakistanis was moving towards the Red Sea port of Hodeida, where "arrangements for their brief stay before their return journey to Pakistan have been made", Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry was quoted by media as saying.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, in a telephone call with Saudi King Salman on Saturday, offered "all potentials of the Pakistan army", media quoted the Saudi Press Agency as saying.
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