Were Pakistani victims forced to go home?

New Delhi: At least seven Pakistani Samjhauta blast victims were airlifted out of New Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital last night and flown back home by the Pakistan Air Force.

Most of the victims had severe burn injuries and had requested to be kept back at the Delhi hospital until their wounds healed.

However, the victims were rushed out of the burns ward of the Safdarjung Hospital unit in the afternoon. The aircraft took off only much later due to a technical snag.

A nine-year-old boy was on a ventilator in the ICU when he was put on the plane to Lahore.

The decision for transporting the injured back to their homes was jointly taken by Indian and Pakistani governments. The Safdarjung Hospital authorities made arrangements to get them transported to Palam Airport, from where they were taken in an Air Force plane to Pakistan.

A team of doctors – which had arrived from Pakistan - went back with the injured.