BEIJING, Feb 5: More than 600 homesick Pakistanis stuck in China since the Sept 11 terrorist attacks in the United States were recently allowed to leave the country, state media reported.

The unhappy visitors, along with 218 vehicles, had been waiting patiently in the west Chinese region of Xinjiang for permission to go home, the Kashgar Daily said in an edition seen in Beijing on Tuesday.

Many of the Pakistanis were travellers who had arrived from all parts of China following Sept 11 in the hope of an opportunity to slip across the border, the paper said.—AFP