New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday thanked his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif for his country's assistance in evacuating 11 Indians from strife-torn Yemen. "I welcome our 11 citizens who've returned from Yemen with assistance from Pakistan. Thank you PM Nawaz Sharif for your humanitarian gesture," according to an official statement from the Prime Minister's Office.

"Service to humanity knows no borders. Glad we helped many countries in evacuation from Yemen." "The help India extended included help to our neighbours Bangladesh, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka," Modi said. Earlier, Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar appreciated Pakistan for evacuating the 11 Indians from Yemen, and called it a "generous gesture".