Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar has announced that 11 Pakistanis and 20 Iranians, aboard vessels seized by the United States on the high seas, have been successfully repatriated.

“All individuals are in good health and high spirits,” Dar wrote in a post on X, adding that the welfare of Pakistanis abroad, particularly those in distress, remains the government’s highest priority.

“All individuals have reached Bangkok from Singapore and already boarded the flight scheduled to reach Islamabad later tonight,” he added. “Our [Iranian] brothers will then be facilitated to return to their homeland.”