What happened: According to the Pakistan embassy in Ukraine, 15 Pakistanis, including nine asylum seekers and six students, have refused to leave the war-torn country. Details: Dawn quoted the information as: “What makes it even more unusual is the fact that five of the students are girls.” On March 5, On Saturday, the Pakistani embassy declared in its daily ‘Fact Sheet’ that it was attempting to evacuate 35 Pakistanis who were trapped in Ukraine as the country’s confrontation with Russia escalated, with many losses reported on both sides. Students’ refusal: According to the embassy, nine Pakistanis are being held in a detention centre and six students in Ivano-Fankivsk and Ternopil have refused to leave the country. The six students, according to the embassy, ‘wanted to stay at their own risk despite repeated advice of the mission’ to leave Ukraine. The other side: However, four Pakistani-Ukrainian nationals, Kashif Shahzad, Munir Mughal, Muhammad Shafiq, and Kamran Younas, want to leave Ukraine, according to the report. What’s next: The embassy claimed it was working to get 35 Pakistanis, stuck in Mariupol, Sumy, and Kherson, out of the country via the humanitarian corridor. Currently, there was no official news on the corridor’s construction, it noted.