Japanese
Leave Pakistan Fearing Possible Indo-Pak War
Several
countries have asked their nationals to leave
Pakistan
and
India
By
Asif Farooqi, IOL Pakistan correspondent
ISLAMABAD,
June 3 (IslamOnline) - Japanese nationals residing in Pakistan have been
asked by their government to leave the country as soon as possible.
Whereas
most of the Japanese private citizens and corporation’s staff,
including the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) have
decided to leave Pakistan for the time being, Japanese embassy staff
will keep working normally, a Japanese Embassy official told IslamOnline
Thursday, May 3o.
This
decision from the Japanese government follows many other countries who
over the past few days either have asked their nationals to leave
Pakistan and India or have issued travel warnings about these two South
Asian countries.
The
countries who have already dubbed Pakistan and Indian as “dangerous”
places include Britain, Germany, France, United States, Kuwait, Saudi
Arabia and the United Nations, who have issued similar directives to
their citizens in Pakistan and India.
Special
briefing was arranged in the Japanese Embassy in Islamabad on Thursday
for the Japanese nationals.
A
senior security official of the embassy while analyzing the Pak-India
border tensions concluded that a war between the two countries was
imminent.
“Our
analysis is that the a war could be sparked off as early as in three to
four days,” a Japanese security official told the briefing.
The
JICA offices are likely to announced seizure of their operation tomorrow
as the Japanese family were reported to have already started packing up
to catch the earliest possible flight.
