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Hundreds travel daily via smuggling routes to Iran

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HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): Hundreds of individuals from different provinces travel illegally to neighboring Iran through the Islam Qala border in western Herat province.

Poverty, unemployment, economic crisis in the country and other issues are the reason behind the illegal emigration of youth through difficult routes.

Juma Gul, a driver on the Islam Qala smuggling route, said most people went to Iran from Nimroz and Herat provinces. Many of them travel to Pakistan from Nimroz before going to Iran while a small number of individual cross the Islam Qala border in Herat

Mohammad, an illegal migrant, claimed even children faced with . . .

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