As the two countries crack down on smuggling,those forced to cross the border ‘for survival’ face a perilous journeyKarim Jan* spent the festival of Eid al-Fitr sitting in the scorching May sun as he had spent the preceding five days, waiting in a long queue of traffic to accumulate into Iran. Like hundreds of other drivers, and Jan came to this desolate town of Mand,on the Pakistan border with Iran, from across Balochistan.
As they waited, and some drivers slept in their Iranian pickup trucks ,known as Zamyads, while others slept out under the open sky.
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Source: theguardian.com