{"id":33337,"date":"2021-06-22T16:34:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T07:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jun\/22\/deadly-traffic-the-fuel-drivers-caught-up-in-pakistan-iran-border-tensions"},"modified":"2021-06-22T16:34:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T07:34:47","slug":"deadly-traffic-the-fuel-drivers-caught-up-in-pakistan-iran-border-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33337","title":{"rendered":"Deadly traffic: the fuel drivers caught up in Pakistan-Iran border tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the two countries crack down on smuggling, those forced to cross the border \u2018for survival\u2019 face a perilous journey<\/p>\n<p>Karim Jan* spent the festival of Eid al-Fitr sitting in the scorching May sun as he had spent the previous five days, waiting in a long queue of traffic to get into Iran. Like hundreds of other drivers, Jan came to this desolate town of Mand, on the Pakistan border with Iran, from across Balochistan.<\/p>\n<p>As they waited, some drivers slept in their Iranian pickup trucks , known as <em>Zamyads<\/em>, while others slept out under the open sky.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jun\/22\/deadly-traffic-the-fuel-drivers-caught-up-in-pakistan-iran-border-tensions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the two countries crack down on smuggling, those forced to cross the border \u2018for survival\u2019 face a perilous journeyKarim Jan* spent the festival of Eid al-Fitr sitting in the scorching May sun as he had spent the previous five days, waiting in a long&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,448,212,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-iran","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33338,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33337\/revisions\/33338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}