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Posted on 03/18/2026 7:13:59 AM PDT by Salman
The illicit trade has long thrived in the region but is feeling the knock-on effects of the war which has engulfed the Middle East following US-Israeli strikes on Iran.
Supplies coming across the 900-kilometre (560-mile) border between Pakistan and Iran have dropped by nearly half and driven up prices.
"Before the war, the rate was good," Hakeem Ullah, a 35-year-old driver, told AFP.
"We used to get petrol for 150 rupees ($0.54). But now, after the war, we are getting petrol for 190 rupees per litre."
Ullah is one of dozens of young men in the border towns of Balochistan province who transport fuel across the frontier every day in blue Iranian-made Zamyad trucks.
A single trip that once earned him a steady profit has now seen his margin cut by half due to the spike in cost and disrupted supplies.
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Things tough all over.
I wonder if the baluchis who are spread over Baluchistan (in Pakistan), and in Sistan-e-Baloch (In Iran), will try for an independent statd
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