The family was taken amidst tight security at around midnight to Chaklala military airbase in Rawalpindi, where a special Saudi aircraft was standing by to fly out the women and children.u00a0

Security agencies sent a mini bus to the house in Sector G-6 of Islamabad where the family was being held to transport them to the airport. The widows initially refused to enter the bus in the presence of large number of journalists who had gathered at the house and officials covered its windows with plastic sheets. TV news channels beamed footage of two smiling women seated at the front of the bus as it drove away from the house. Two of the widows are Saudi nationals while the third, Amal Abdulfattah, is a Yemeni national.