Indian navy's Operation Yemen impresses world: 23 countries ask for help

Even as the Indian Navy successfully braved bombs to evacuate more than 2300 citizens from Yemen, Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj on Monday said that a further 23 countries have sought India's help to evacuate their citizens from the war-torn country.

While Swaraj did not name any of the countries who had approached India, she tweeted saying, "Twenty three countries have requested India to evacuate their citizens from Yemen."India on Sunday evacuated 806 of its nationals and Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Monday that "Almost all Indians would be evacuated from strife-torn Yemen by this evening."

The requests for help in evacuation by other nations come even as Swaraj tweeted that in a humanitarian gesture Indian Navy evacuated three Pakistani nationals from Al Hodeida by INS Sumitra.

Meanwhile, 11 Indians along with 172 others, were evacuated by a Pakistani ship from Yemen's southeastern city of Mokallah on Sunday, which is now almost entirely under control of al-Qaeda militants.

The PNS Aslat set off for Pakistan on Saturday after successfully evacuating 183 people, including 35 foreigners, from Mokallah, the Foreign Office (FO) said.

Narendra Modi has also tweeted extensively about the operation: