{"id":15422,"date":"2026-06-17T08:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T08:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/06\/17\/pakistan-facilitates-return-30-iranian-citizens-karachi-ship-crew\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T08:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T08:18:27","slug":"pakistan-facilitates-return-30-iranian-citizens-karachi-ship-crew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/06\/17\/pakistan-facilitates-return-30-iranian-citizens-karachi-ship-crew\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Facilitates Return of 30 Iranian Citizens via Karachi, Including Seized Ship Crew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan&#8217;s Foreign Minister announced that the process to return 30 Iranian citizens, including 22 crew members of a ship recently seized by US authorities, is being facilitated through the city of Karachi. He stated that these individuals are expected to cross Pakistani territory and return to Iran in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Ishaq Dar, whose country has at times acted as a mediator between Tehran and Washington, said Pakistan is &#8220;pleased&#8221; to provide the grounds for the return of these Iranian citizens. He emphasized that this action is being carried out within the framework of humanitarian cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Pakistani official, among those involved are eight Iranian fishermen who were rescued at sea by the British ship MMA Valour after their boat ran aground. The 22 crew members of the ship Lenore\/Davina, which was recently seized by US authorities, are also included in this repatriation process.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistani Foreign Minister added that his country is in close coordination with Iranian, American, and British officials to ensure the safe passage and swift return of these individuals. He underscored Islamabad&#8217;s ongoing commitment to humanitarian cooperation in such cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan is facilitating the return of 30 Iranian citizens, including ship crew, through Karachi, coordinating with Iran, US, and UK for safe passage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}