Special Indian plane to bring back 300 Indians from Egypt

[Lankan Ranger]

Special Indian plane to bring back 300 Indians from Egypt

India has sent a special commercial flight on Sunday to bring back Indians wanting to return home from Egypt that is in the middle of a political upheaval.

An Air India flight with a capacity to carry 300-odd passengers is being sent to Cairo to enable Indians living in or visiting Egypt to return to India if they desired so, government sources said here.

Some of the 3,600-odd Indians, who live in Egypt that is facing political unrest at present, have expressed their interest in returning home and the flight is arranged based on their request, the source said.

Flight schedules in and out of Egypt have been disrupted in the last couple of days after anti-government protests broke out there seeking the stepping down of President Hosni Mubarak, who has been in power for over three decades now.

Due to the disruption in flights, the Indian government took a decision to send a commercial aircraft to Cairo to ferry Indians back home if they desired so, the sources said, noting that of the 3,600 Indians in Egypt, 2,200 are residents of Cairo.

The chartered flight will leave for Cairo on Sunday and will return late in the night with about 300 passengers, which would include some tourists, businessmen and Indian embassy staff members.

On Saturday, the external affairs ministry issued an advisory asking Indians to avoid all non-essential travel to Egypt. It also noted that its embassy in Cairo was in touch with the Indians living there and they were safe.

Special AI plane to bring back 300 Indians from Egypt - The Times of India

 

[RoYaL~GuJJaR]

Good News..! Atleast those ppl who went there as tourists will get back there home safely.

 

[twoplustwoisfour]

Jaate hue to plane khaali hoga na? Ticket saste mein mil jayegi. Chalo Egypt ghoomne chalte hain. Waise bhi dange-fasaad ki to ham logo ko aadat hai

 

[Last Hope]

You mean to say 'special flight' instead of special plane.
I was wondering will they bring back the citizens from the new C-130 they got!
Egypt is in critical situiation and I say this was a very brilliant move. Lets hope that the protestors dont take hold of these as hostages or seize control of the Aviation authorities putting life of many foreigners in line. Revolutions like this, you may expect anything to happen. I am sure, these revolutions are gonna take part in atleast over a dozen countries within the decade.

Regards.

 

[tallboy123]

^^yes yes we will bring them on C-130J

 

[pmukherjee]

You mean to say 'special flight' instead of special plane.
I was wondering will they bring back the citizens from the new C-130 they got!
Egypt is in critical situiation and I say this was a very brilliant move. Lets hope that the protestors dont take hold of these as hostages or seize control of the Aviation authorities putting life of many foreigners in line. Revolutions like this, you may expect anything to happen. I am sure, these revolutions are gonna take part in atleast over a dozen countries within the decade.

Regards.

They just want Hosni Mubarak to go. It is a democratic aspiration by the people, not a revolution.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

You mean to say 'special flight' instead of special plane.
I was wondering will they bring back the citizens from the new C-130 they got!
Egypt is in critical situiation and I say this was a very brilliant move. Lets hope that the protestors dont take hold of these as hostages or seize control of the Aviation authorities putting life of many foreigners in line. Revolutions like this, you may expect anything to happen. I am sure, these revolutions are gonna take part in atleast over a dozen countries within the decade.

Regards.

The passengers at the airport being taken hostage by the protestors is quite unlikely. First of all, their anger is against their government; secondly they harbor no ill-will against Indians or Asians. Over the years of interacting with them, i have found Egyptians to be rational and considerate people. This whole movement is born out of awareness of political rights and democratic aspirations; not out of extremism.
The only hostages they may go looking for will be ruling party functionaries.

 

[Water Car Engineer]

 

[desioptimist]

Come on, this is not about rescue. Egypt's air-flights are now freezing due to turmoil ongoing. Indians tourists stuck in Egypt.

That is why the special flight was organized.
But most Indians need not worry. I was in egypt recently, and egyptians are very nice to us. They wont harm any Indian( or asian). They are only angry at their govt, which is corrupt and insensitive. Hope they get their democracy.

 

[ajtr]

Egypt on boil, but India won’t rush in​

C. Raja Mohan

Posted: Jan 30, 2011 at 0206 hrs IST


New Delhi As India watches with concern the gathering political storm in Egypt and other Arab states, the government will not rush into commenting on the unprecedented and the unpredictable revolt against the ossified order in the Middle East, official sources here say.

The government’s current silence on the confrontation between the Arab nation and the ruling regimes in the Middle East does not mean it is unaware of the implications of the tumult for India’s growing interests in the region.

India’s trade with the 22 countries of the Arab League is currently at the level of about $120 billion and is expected to double within the next five years. Prospects for regional instability have already begun to push oil prices up and close to $100 a barrel.

Both principle and pragmatism, however, have tended to reinforce the current Indian reluctance to inject itself verbally into an explosive situation on the Arab street.

With the exception of its own immediate neighbours whose internal developments directly affect India’s national security interests, India has scrupulously respected the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of other developing nations.

Conscious of its own strong sensitivities against the meddling by great powers, India would rather avoid the impression of taking sides in the Arab world’s internal conflicts.

From the practical perspective too, officials here point out, any Indian comment at this stage — even a banal call for ‘restraint from all sides’ — is unlikely to make much difference to the situation on the ground.

Washington, which has strong influence in Egypt, is finding it hard to balance its massive political investment in Cairo’s ‘ancien regime’ and its proclaimed preference for democratic change in the Middle East.

Unlike the Bush Administration that embraced the notion of promoting democracy in the Middle East, the Obama Administration has drastically toned down its policy ambitions in the region.

The Obama Administration has been criticised at home for being too timid in its response to the massive street protests against an adversarial regime in Tehran during 2009 and the current unrest against a long-standing ally in Egypt.

South Block is aware of the deep popular empathy for India in the Arab street. At the intellectual level, too, there is considerable admiration in the region for the Indian struggle to sustain a secular and democratic political system under difficult conditions and its recent high economic growth rates.

Unlike the West, which propped up unpopular and authoritarian regimes in the region and is eager to reach out to the Arab street, India is under no pressure to prove its abundant goodwill to the peoples of the Middle East.

Yet, India may no longer have the luxury of an overly cautious diplomatic posture as the political crisis of rare magnitude inflames the Arab world.

As the Arabs turn away from the old ideological slogans and against their own authoritarian governments, India will soon have to recalibrate its diplomacy in the Middle East, where its interests have become deeper and more widespread.

 

[tallboy123]

By the way wats the problem in egypt???????????

 

[jagjitnatt]

By the way wats the problem in egypt???????????

didn't you watch Gadar? same funda.

 

[aakash_2410]

didn't you watch Gadar? same funda.

Yeah but which country is dividing from egypt?

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

By the way wats the problem in egypt???????????

Viva la revolution......... down with dictatorship(hussni mubarak).......... instead of trolling watch new channels n read news papers.

 

[aakash_2410]

Viva la revolution......... down with dictatorship(hussni mubarak).......... instead of trolling watch new channels n read news papers.

How is he trolling? If he asked a genuine question about something he didn't know? I didn't know wither. And everywhere in news they just say 'egypt unrest' so how is he supposed to know?