Racially motivated assaults down, Pakistani ambassador says

Pakistani nationals living in Greece have seen a decline in racially motivated assaults recently, following a spike in such incidents, Pakistan's ambassador in Athens, Khalid Usman Qaiser, told on an event hosted by the embassy on Monday to mark "Kashmir Solidarity Day."

"Over the last three to four months the number of cases of assaults has gone down, although one more compatriot of ours was recently shot in the leg in Thessaloniki," Qaiser said.

The ambassador also thanked the Citizens' Protection Ministry for taking action to curb such phenomena and expressed his confidence in the Greek judicial system for bringing perpetrators of such hate crimes to justice.
The ambassador said that the number of Pakistanis legally living in Greece stands at 16,868, and that last year some 3,600 Pakistani immigrants were sent back to their country.

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