The Balochistan government has sent 1,652 people, who had returned from Iran, to their respective provinces after their stay in quarantine for 14 days at Taftan, officials of the provincial home department said.

“The convoys of pilgrims, students and other people left Taftan in 50 buses amid strict security,” a senior official told Dawn.

Of them 1,230 belonged to Punjab, 232 to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and 190 to Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

Read more here.