KARACHI, June 17: While there has been an extraordinary decline in the number of incoming foreigners since Friday’s attack on the US Consulate General, over 250 Americans have landed in the city over the past two days.

Sources at the Quaid-i-Azam International Airport told Dawn that the incoming US citizens alone outnumbered all the foreigners, who included some 64 Britons, the second largest group among the incoming foreigners.

They said the Americans, who arrived here through passenger flights over the past two days, did not include the 10-member FBI team which came in a special plane.

The sources said that over 70 US citizens also left the country during the past two days. Over 1,900 Americans were among 13,500 foreigners who had left Pakistan in May alone following a car-bomb attack on the Frenchmen, they said.

The sources said the foreigners who arrived here over the past two days included, other than the Britons, only half a dozen Europeans.

They said a few foreigners had been left in the city following Fridays’s attack on the US consulate as most of them had already departed after the killing of 11 Frenchmen on May 8.

The sources said those who left for abroad over the past two days included 45 Britons, 28 Canadians, 14 Australians, nine French nationals, six Germans and an equal number of Dutch nationals, two Norwegians, three Japanese and one Russian.