A flight carrying 200 Pakistani citizens stranded by the pandemic took off from Washington DC on Sunday.
The flight, headed to Islamabad, is the first of six such charter flights arranged by the Pakistani government.
Around 1,500 Pakistanis stranded in the US will be brought home via these flights, the Pakistani embassy said.
Another flight, this one chartered by the US, will take home 150 Pakistani students on Monday. These students were in the US on various exchange programmes.
Meanwhile, Pakistan continues to relax its lockdown, allowing some markets to reopen even as cases surged past 30,000 and deaths crossed 600.
Source:Â bbc.com